A Ch’ing Dynasty coin was unearthed during the excavation of a nineteenth-century building in the Chinatown section of Darwin, Australia. Australian coins, medicine vials, buttons, beads, and a buckle from a soldier’s belt were also found.

Shimoni, Kenya, is known for its caves, where slaves were shackled while awaiting transport to the slave market in Zanzibar.  

Archaeologists are looking for Civil War-era artifacts on Pittsburgh’s North Side. “Pittsburgh during the Civil War was considered the arsenal of the Union. It’s a place where the cannons were cast and lots of ammunition was made at Allegheny Arsenal,” said Andy Masich, president of the Heinz History Center.  

A Bronze Age village has been excavated in Transylvania.  

Should a bike path be cut through an eighteenth-century Quaker cemetery on Nantucket Island?  

American undergraduates can spend five weeks in Egypt as part of UCLA’s new field school.

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