Oetzi the Iceman suffered a gash in his hand several days before he was shot in the back with an arrow, according to German and Italian scientists. “We are now able to make the first assertions as to the age and chronology of the injuries,” said leader Andreas Nerlich of Ludwig-Maximilians University.

Protesters continue to decry the changes being made at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.  

Archaeologists have been excavating Chang’an, the 2,000-year-old capital of the Western Han Dynasty, for 50 years. The walled city had 12 gates, and eight tree-lined avenues.  

Five sites were located during the first archaeological survey of Albania’s seabed, which sits along an ancient trade route used by Greece, Italy, North Africa, and the western Mediterranean.   

In Yemen, a man found human bones and pottery in a cave near his home. The artifacts were taken to Sayoun National Museum, and a guard has been placed at the site.  

Here’s an introduction to the ever-puzzling Silbury Hill, a 4,000-year-old mound that sits in England’s Wiltshire countryside.

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