Thousands of Mesolithic flint tools and flakes have been unearthed in Leicestershire, England. Charcoal, burned animal bones, postholes, and arcs of stones that may show the positions of dwellings were also found.

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team has recently excavated a mass grave outside a cemetery in Buenos Aires. At least 13,000 Argentinians “disappeared” between 1976 and 1983, when the country was ruled by military dictators. “You are dealing with violence, with human rights, with relatives that lost their loved ones. In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need this job, but we are proud of what we do,” said team member Mariana Segura.  

Scientists are learning more about early Hawaiian agriculture, on both wet land and dry, using computer modeling techniques and Google Earth. Hawaiian farming supported as many as one million people before European contact.  

A cemetery dating between 300 and 800 A.D. was discovered in Costa Rica. Archaeologists uncovered 59 ceramic artifacts buried in three rock-covered mounds.  

Water works from the time of Peter the Great have been unearthed in Moscow’s Pushkinskaya Square.  

How old is the Cerne Abbas Giant? Rob Wilson-North, historic environment manager for England’s Exmoor National Park Authority, thinks the chalk-outline figure may be 100 years older than previously thought.   

Rogue Classicism examines the claim that Cambyses’ lost army, described by Herodotus, has been found in the Egyptian desert.

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