During this year’s excavations at Tel Bet Yerah, a settlement along the ancient highway that connected Egypt to the rest of the Near East, archaeologists unearthed a fragment of a carved stone plaque. The high-quality of the Egyptian symbol on the fragment suggests that ties between the people of the Jordan Valley and Egypt’s First Dynasty were stronger than had been thought.

Computers are being used to try to crack the Harappan script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization.  

Foreign visitors are trickling back to Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province, once home to the colossal Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban. “Before the war, this was a touristic place. More than 7,000 cars a day visited here,” said Japanese hotel owner, Hiromi Yasui.  

A hill fort in Wales could be almost 3,000 years old, according to new dates for samples taken from the site, known as Moel y Gaer.  

Why do people have such a range of skin hues?  

Here’s another article on the Iron Age butter barrel discovered in a bog in County Kildare, Ireland.

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