The remains of a man and a woman have been uncovered near a defense line within Turkey’s ancient city of Troy. “If the remains are confirmed to be from 1,200 B.C. it would coincide with the Trojan War period. These people were buried near a moat. We are conducting radiocarbon testing, but the find is electrifying,” said Ernst Pernicka of the University of Tubingen.

A new section of the Great Wall has been unearthed in northeastern China.  

In Peru, the bones of a “rattle-wielding elite male” have been found in a double-chambered Moche tomb dating to A.D. 850. The buried man resembles an archetype in Moche art known as Aia Paec, or “Wrinkle Face.”  

Three Iraqis were arrested for looting Sumerian artifacts.  

Wood, wicker, traces of fur, and human bones were discovered in a Bronze Age cist in Scotland’s Highlands.  

Thirteen eighteenth-century gold coins were found near the Roman bridge in the center of Córdoba, Spain. Archaeologists think the coins were hidden ahead of the French invasion in 1808.  

Archaeology students at Michigan State University have unearthed part of the foundation of College Hall, built in 1856 as the nation’s first building for the study of scientific agriculture. The structure was torn down in 1918 after two of its walls collapsed. “There’s no question the construction of the building was poor. The foundation is not done as solidly as the other buildings on campus,” said Lynne Goldstein, who directs the Campus Archaeology Program.  

This editorial for The Durango Herald examines the possibility of handing over artifacts confiscated by the federal government to American Indian tribes.  

A private group called “Finding Franklin” is threatening legal action against Canada’s Nunavut government for denying them a permit to search for the HMS Erebus</i> and HMS <i>Terror.   

In celebration of the autumnal equinox, Britain’s Organic Milk Co-operative has constructed “Fridgehenge” out of old refrigerators.

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