New CT scans of the famous bust of Nefertiti suggest that the statue’s limestone core may represent a more realistic image of Akhenaten’s wife, complete with less prominent cheekbones, a bump on the ridge of the nose, wrinkles, and less depth at the corners of the eyelids.   Here’s a second article and view of Nefertiti’s likeness.

Mass graves containing the bodies of some 30 women and children were unearthed in northern France. Archaeologists say they were killed on December 12, 1793, during the first War of the Vendee during the French Revolution.  

Scientists have pieced together a child’s skull which may indicate that early humans might not have immediately killed or abandoned their abnormal offspring, as other mammals are known to do. The 10-year-old <i>Homo heidelbergensis</i> child suffered from a rare birth defect known as craniosynostosis, which would have interfered with brain development and caused severe health problems requiring special care.  

Take a look at some of the artifacts recently recovered from the shipwreck thought to be the Queen Anne’s Revenge. The director of the project, Mark Wilde-Ramsing, says that the bit of gold treasure, navigational tools, and medical paraphernalia strengthen the case that Blackbeard’s pirate ship has been found.  

Archaeologists have excavated a pottery workshop in Pella, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedon.  

Volunteers in the National Park Service’s Passport in Time program helped archaeologists excavate and restore a looted American Indian site in the Kisatchie National Forest.  

Residents of the village of Tudakavsh, Tajikistan, discovered a 4,000-year-old skeleton. The man’s face-down posture suggests that he died in battle.  

Some of the Machu Picchu artifacts at Yale University have become the subject of a work of art by Sandra Gamarra. She painted more than 100 of the objects shown in a Yale exhibition catalog, and displayed them as a house of cards. “The house of cards is a direct reference to the state of the Peru-Yale case. It is a very unstable situation and at the same time it’s gone on so long that there’s a kind of equilibrium,” she said.

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