Australia’s Herald Sun provides news from Beijing about damage sustained by China’s cultural heritage in the May 12 earthquake.

Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,400-year-old Lombard camp in Testona, Italy, where a warrior had been buried with his horse, a “treasure chest,” a pair of pincers, a bronze belt buckle, a ring, a short sword, and armor.   

An engineer-geologist says that Pisa’s leaning tower has been stabilized. “Now we can say that the tower can rest easy for at least 300 years,” Michele Jamiolkowski told reporters.  

The portico to the Temple of Khnum, a ram-headed fertility god, was found beneath the surface of the Nile River in Aswan.  

Tharu, an ancient headquarters of the Pharaonic army between 1570 B.C. and the first century B.C., was discovered on the northeastern boarders of Egypt. The town and its fortress sat at the start of the Horus military road that joined the Nile Valley to the Levant.  

Excavation will begin at the supposed mass grave of 400 British and Australian soldiers who died in northern France in 1916 during World War I. “This is a very historic moment for us given the mystery that surrounded Fromelles for such a long time,” said Australia’s defense minister Warren Snowdon.  

Danish scientists used new, sterile, recovery methods to retrieve DNA from 1,000-year-old Viking skeletons.  

Judge Blanche Manning ruled yesterday that Iran must produce records about how its ancient clay tablets and other artifacts arrived at the University of Chicago and its Field Museum.  Victims and heirs of victims of a 1997 terrorist bombing in Jerusalem were awarded $251 million by an American judge, and they want to seize the artifacts as payment. Hamas, which is financed and trained by the Iranian government, claimed responsibility for the bombing.  

On the first day of field school, students from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro witnessed the recapture of a suspect by police on the front lawn of the Blandwood Mansion, once the governor’s home.

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