Pavlopetri, a submerged Mycenaean town off the coast of Greece, is 1,200 years older than previously thought. “It is a rare find and it is significant because as a submerged site it was never re-occupied and therefore represents a frozen moment of the past,” said Elias Spondylis of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

An Anglo-Greek team of scholars thinks that a network of tunnels in a quarry near Gortyn, the ancient capital of Crete, may be the original site of the mythical Labyrinth. English archaeologist Arthur Evans excavated the Minoan palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, and promoted it as the original location of the maze. “Going into the Labyrinthos Caves at Gortyn it’s easy to feel that this is a dark and dangerous place where it is easy to get lost. Evans’ hypothesis that the palace of Knossos is also the Labyrinth must be treated skeptically,” said Nicholas Howarth of Oxford University.  

A depiction of the pretzel-like Staffordshire Knot has been found on an Anglo-Saxon artifact from the Staffordshire Hoard, indicating that the knot is 500 years older than previously thought.   

Charles Denton Armstrong, who is accused of threatening to hurt a key witness in the federal illegal artifacts-trafficking sting in Utah, is due to appear in court today. Prosecutors say they have reached a tentative settlement with him.   This article is about the man who was threatened, “The Source.”  

The Piqua Shawnee Tribe has asked that a tree-covered mound in western Ohio be surrounded by a protective barrier because there are plans to build a commercial wind farm in the area. “We don’t have any plans to disturb that mound,” replied Michael Speerschneider of EverPower.

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