In Burlington, Vermont, archaeologists are looking for the remains of a War of 1812 hospital and the site where more than 5,000 soldiers were stationed.  

The skull of a man thought to have been a Revolutionary War soldier will be reburied in Connecticut with full military honors. The skull was uncovered in the 1840s during railroad construction.   

An oyster fisherman dredged up a skull in England’s Chichester Harbor.  

Tropical Storm Ida revealed the wreckage of the Rachel off the coast of Alabama. “It was built as a lumber schooner and was carrying a load of lumber when it ran into a storm. It didn’t have a full crew and they couldn’t handle the ship in the storm. They put out an anchor, but it ran aground,” said Mike Bailey, Fort Morgan events coordinator.   

Photographs of the A.J. Goddard, which sank in a lake in Canada’s Yukon Territory during the Klondike Gold Rush, are available at National Geographic News.  

The face and body of a 16-year-old girl have been reconstructed by forensic scientists. Her remains had been discovered in a 1,500-year-old tomb in Korea in 2007.   

The only surviving prehistoric rock art in Barbados has been damaged by vandals.  

Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s chief archaeologist, says that Italian archaeologists Angelo and Alfredo Castiglioni had not been granted legal permission to excavate in Egypt, and that their claims to have located the vanished Persian army of Cambyses are “unfounded and misleading.”  

The Theater of Dionysos, located under the Athens Acropolis, will be partially restored.

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