Two men fled the scene as sheriff’s deputies approached an ancient graveyard near Ohio’s Little Miami River. The men had been digging at the site.

The skeletal remains of 12 Maoris were repatriated to New Zealand from the National Museum of Wales after a special ceremony. The bones have been in boxes at the museum since the 1920s.  

Graduate students will search the coastline of the island of Tutuila in American Samoa for tsunami damage to archaeological sites.  

An artificial pond dating to the eighth or ninth century has been uncovered in an ornamental garden at Taga Castle, in northeastern Japan.  

Here’s more on the story of the discovery of the CSS Appomattox in North Carolina’s Pasquotank River.  

Archaeologists are assisting with the relocation of an African-American cemetery in Clayton County, Georgia. The cemetery had been abandoned and is being moved to make way for an airport.  

A man in Charleston, West Virginia, has consulted archaeologists to try to figure out who built the rock cairns on his property. “It took a lot of work and a lot of time to build them. I just don’t see them being moved and stacked for agriculture,” said Roger Wise, supervising archaeologist for the state Division of Highways.  

Britain’s Great Drain, which carries overflow from the Roman Baths, will be opened up for the first time in 2,000 years. An extension added to the ancient drain is clogged and poses a flood risk.  

Three skulls were discovered in an Inca vessel at an ancient ceremonial center north of Cuzco, Peru. Washington Camacho, director of the Sacsayhuaman Archaeological Park, thinks the heads may have belonged to chiefs or leaders of enemies of the Incas.  

Archaeologists are debating who or what deforested Rapa Nui, a.k.a. Easter Island. Did people destroy the last tree, or did stowaway rats eat all of the palm tree nuts?  

Special cutting tools will be used to recover two crates of Scotch whisky buried under a hut in the Antarctic. The crates were left by explorer Ernest Shackleton during his early twentieth-century attempt to reach the South Pole.  

Italian archaeologists present their case that the lost Persian army of Cambyses II has been found in this video at Discovery News.

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