What could be the sacred temple of Naylamp, the legendary first ruler of Peru’s Lambayeque civilization, has been uncovered, according to Carlos Wester La Torre, director of the Brüning Museum.

Here’s more information on the Minoan-style paintings discovered at Israel’s Tel Kabri.  

Stone slabs that once covered graves were found near the roof of a 1,000 year old church in Brancepeth, England. Historian Jim Merrington thinks they may have been hidden there 450 years ago to keep them safe from vandals and reformists.  

While re-examining artifacts taken from the tomb of King Muryeong, who ruled Korea’s Baekje Kingdom between 501 and 523 A.D., a curator from the Gongju National Museum identified four fragments of a human shinbone. This is reportedly the first time royal bone fragments have been found in an ancient tomb in Korea.  

Many artifacts from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), including arrowheads, European cannon parts, and pottery, were unearthed in central Seoul, Korea.  

A 1,000-year-old anchor was dug up on Scotland’s Isle of Skye. “I stumbled on it quite by chance, I wasn’t looking for anything. I just wanted to drain the land so I can grow potatoes there next year,” said landowner Graeme Mackenzie.  

Park rangers have found fresh graffiti defacing pictographs at Sequoia National Park in California.  

Vassili Khristoforov, head archivist for Russia’s intelligence service, insists that a skull fragment and jaw in his collection are the only existing remains of Adolf Hitler, despite recent DNA tests by scientists from the University of Connecticut, who found the skull fragment to be that of a woman between 20 and 40 years old. They did not test the jawbone.   

National Geographic News has listed its top ten archaeological discoveries for 2009.

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