A miniature gemstone engraved with the bust of Alexander the Great has been discovered at Tel Dor, on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. “The emperor is portrayed as young and forceful, with a strong chin, straight nose, and long curly hair held in place by a diadem,” said Ayelet Gilboa of the University of Haifa.

Ground-penetrating radar was used to locate what could be the crash site where Eugene M. Bradley died in 1941 during training exercises at what was then the Windsor Locks Army Air Base in Connecticut. The airport is now known as Bradley International Airport.   

A male skeleton has been unearthed at the Roman town of Venta Icenorum in Norfolk, England. Archaeologists want to know if the town was built on top of an Iceni tribe’s settlement.  

A team from Appalachian State University traveled to Tanzania to uncover 58 footprints-the oldest known trackways of modern humans. “With the data we collected this summer, we hope to reconstruct the height, weight, and gait of the individuals that made these traces, and determine which nearby volcano produced the footprinted ash layer,” said geologist Cynthia Liutkus.  

Rob Rondeau of ProCom Diving Services responds to yesterday’s article and denies the accusation that he planned to search for Sir John Franklin’s lost ships in the Northwest Passage without a government permit.  

The remains of an unknown Civil War soldier recovered from Maryland’s Antietam National Battlefield will return to his home state of New York today. His bone fragments, belt buckle, and buttons were spotted by a hiker last year.  

Researchers are mapping the wrecks of Civil War blockade runners in the waters around Florida’s Tampa Bay.  

A Colorado man accused of artifact trafficking appeared in U.S. District Court in Denver yesterday. He will enter his plea at the end of the month.

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