A 4,500-year-old circular city has been found in Syria on the banks of the Euphrates, in an area due to be flooded by a dam project.  

Traces of the home of a wealthy Roman have been unearthed beneath Marlowe Theater in Canterbury, England. The house dates to the late second or third centuries.  

Here’s more information on the possible route taken by explorer Hernando de Soto through what is now Jacksonville, Georgia. Glass beads and Spanish tools were found by researchers from Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum of Natural History at an Indian village dating to the early sixteenth century.  

The health of the 1,300 people buried in a medieval Irish cemetery is described in the Irish Times.  

And there’s an article on the discovery of a third-century building in the former Japanese capital of Nara that may have been Queen Himiko’s Yamatai palace.   The Mainichi Daily News describes the building in greater detail.  

Four ancient wells that were part of a lake sacred to the Egyptian goddess Mut were unearthed in Tanis. Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said they were probably used by the people for their daily water needs.  

“I’m only asking for the unique cultural objects,” Hawass said of his quest for the return of Egyptian artifacts housed in the world’s museums.   

Hamid Baqaei, of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization, announced that the loan of the Cyrus Cylinder to the National Museum of Iran would begin in January and last for three months. “We can confirm that representatives from the British Museum are in Tehran at the moment, but until we have spoken to them we can’t confirm anything further,” responded a press assistant from the British Museum.  

The Bureau of Land Management has nominated 63 rock art sites along Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon for the National Register of Historic Places.

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