An undisturbed tomb where the some 30 people had been buried has been found in a royal palace at Syria’s ancient trading crossroads of Qatna.    This article has a different photograph.

Archaeologist Bill Silva has been assisting police with the examination of the grounds where Jaycee Dugard was held captive for 18 years in California.”We have set it up just like an archaeological site, where we are looking for real ephemeral remains. This is the first crime scene I’ve worked on, unless you consider a Native American massacre site,” he said.   

Nine hilltop palaces at the Maya site of Kiuic could help archaeologists understand the moment that the people abandoned their city 1,000 years ago and headed north. “The people just walked away and left everything in place,” said George Bey of Millsaps College.  

Learn more about building an ultra-modern tunnel under the Bosphorus, and the spectacular discovery of the ancient port of Theodosius, in this article from CNN.  

In England, the Bingham Heritage Trails Association wants to move a Roman well unearthed during road construction in order to preserve it. “We’ve got a great deal of information about the Roman occupation in Bingham and absolutely nothing is visible, it’s all under ploughed fields,” explained chairman Peter Allen.  

The Israel Antiquities Authority is beginning to unearth a Roman amphitheater discovered 19 years ago near Tiberias. The theater seated more than 7,000 people.  

Hunters have used rock shelters in Ohio for more than 10,000 years.  

Take a short trip in the way-back machine to the summer of 1969, when students from Illinois State University worked on a dig in Presidio, Texas. This article tells us what those kids and their professors are doing now.  

Here’s more information on the presumed Scorpion, a ship archaeologists have found in a Maryland marsh that may have defended the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812.

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