Seventy-nine sets of human remains dating to the seventh century were discovered inside a stone wall at the remote Kuelap fortress in northern Peru, which was built around 1000 A.D. Archaeologist Alfredo Narvaez explained that the people building the fortress brought their dead with them for reburial.

A genetic study of mitochondrial DNA taken from live donkeys and donkey bones from archaeological sites suggests that the beast of burden was domesticated over a long period of time in North Africa.  

A magnetometry team from the University of Toronto has found a clear boundary between the city at Tel Tayinat, located in southern Turkey, and the area outside of it.  

Istanbul will remain on the World Heritage List. UNESCO has warned that the city’s historic sites have not been conserved according to international criteria. 

The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory will be in charge of conserving the wooden ship timbers taken from the World Trade Center site this week.  And here’s more information on the ship itself.  

A wooden shipwreck that turned up on a Narragansett beach may have been caught in a net 20 years ago by a commercial fishing vessel, and kicked around by a hurricane before that. “She obviously has been exposed several times, and there is evidence of burning. God knows how many decades she might have come and gone out of the dunes,” said Kathy Abbass of the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project.

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