A criminal complaint was filed yesterday against the former director of the Hillwood Museum at Long Island University. He is accused of stealing nine ancient Egyptian artifacts donated to the museum and selling them at Christie’s auction house.

An early seventeenth-century village known as Argall Towne has been discovered near Jamestown, Virginia. People lived at the village, on land owned by Samuel Argall, for two years. Archaeologist Alain Outlaw has been looking for it for the past 32 years.  

Archaeologist Jon Prangnell says he has found traces of the first British convict settlement in Queensland, Australia.  

A section of street paved in stone slabs has been uncovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority south of the Temple Mount. “In the Second Temple Period, pilgrims would begin the ascent to the Temple from here. This is the southernmost tip of the road, of which a section has already been discovered along the western face of the Temple Mount,” said archaeologist Ronny Reich.  

Take a look at the sonar image of a Civil War blockade runner discovered in Florida’s Hillsborough River.  

Here’s more information on the reburial of the remains of a Civil War soldier discovered by a hiker at Antietam National Battlefield.  

A Roman military cremation cemetery on Hadrian’s Wall is being excavated before it erodes away.  

Is the FBI looking for Jimmy Hoffa beneath a Detroit lumberyard?

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