Railroad construction in central Germany has uncovered skeletons, copper and amber jewelry, dog teeth drilled with holes, shell discs, and other artifacts.

The Akapana pyramid in Tiwanaku, Bolivia, could lose its World Heritage status if UNESCO decides that recent renovations were excessive. “They [the state National Archaeology Union] decided to go free-hand with the (new) design … There are no studies showing that the walls really looked like this,” said José Luis Paz, who assessed the damage to the site.  

Volunteers assisted archaeologist Diana Greenlee at a “screen-a-thon” at Louisiana’s Poverty Point State Historic Site. “Next year may be a sort-a-thon, where we sort all of the stuff we got from screening,” she said.  

National Public Radio has photographs of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, and an article on the Parthenon Marbles.  

A remote area of Spain will be searched for the remains of poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca, who was murdered during the Spanish Civil War in 1936 by gunmen loyal to Franco. “If they discover him it will lay a ghost to rest,” said historian Ian Gibson.  

Tests on a clump of “hair” thought to have belonged to Amelia Earhart have revealed that the strands are actually threads. The International Women’s Air and Space Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, received the would-be hair from the Smithsonian Institution, which had received it from a donor. “We don’t think it’s a hoax. We think they thought that they had something special and wanted an institution to have it,” said museum director Toni Mullee.

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