In Laos, a team of scientists uncovered 2,000-year-old human bones, some of which had been placed in a burial pot, as part of the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project. “Last week, we unexpectedly found two skulls and a fragment of a third, a baby, along with some body bones,” said Joyce White, associate curator at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Burial vaults that could contain the remains of more than 400 people will be moved to make room for family housing in northeast England. The chapel had been demolished in the 1970s.  

The scholarly debate over whether or not humans caused the extinction of Australia’s megafauna has migrated to a morning radio program.  

An American Indian village site in Jacksonville, Alabama, has been destroyed. “There was a big noticeable hump…. It has been here since the twelfth century and now it’s gone. It was there when the city bought the property,” said Harry Holstein of Jacksonville State University.   Human remains were found nearby.   

Parking lot construction revealed a mid-eighteenth-century privy in historic Annapolis. “We can tell the people who lived here had a nice collection of pottery off of which they were eating,” said consulting archaeologist Thomas W. Bodor.  

Here are more photographs of the “cat goddess temple” discovered in Alexandria, Egypt.

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