Army Air Forces 2^nd Lt. Ray Packard went down in his P-38 Lightning fighter over German-occupied France in 1944. U.S. military archaeologists recently recovered his remains and returned them to his family.

Egypt’s 118^th pyramid has been uncovered in Saqqara, according to an announcement made by Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. It is thought to be 4,300 years old and belong to Queen Sesheshet.  ABC News has a photograph of the excavation.   Bloomberg offers a few more details, including how the Queen asked her doctors to find her a cure for hair loss.  

The palace garden quarters built in Beijing’s Forbidden City for the Qianlong Emperor, who retired in the 1770s, have been restored to their former glory. “The importance of the garden is that it is the most sophisticated design. This was the climax of the period,” said architectural historian Liu Chang, of Tsinghua University.  

A sinkhole in Old Sacramento, California, has revealed fragments of a trestle bridge from the first transcontinental railroad.  

Visit a Maya “road to Xibalba” in this video from National Geographic News.  

Here’s a photograph of the site near Jerusalem’s old city walls where archaeologists found a gold, pearl and emerald earring.  Get a closer look at the earring with this photograph from National Geographic News.

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