The planning and building committee for the city of Jerusalem has approved plans for a controversial archaeological park that will require 22 Arab homes to be demolished in the neighborhood of Al-Bustan. There are several more legal stages to go before work begins.

Austrian researchers working in the modern Egyptian town of Tel al-Dabaa have used radar imaging to determine the extent of the 3,500-year-old summer capital of the Hyksos. The images show outlines of streets, houses, and temples.  

A 50,000-year-old baby mammoth will be bombarded with gamma rays in order to kill the potentially lethal germs it carries.  

More than two million people have visited the new Museum of the Acropolis in Athens during its first year of operation.  

Attorney Charles Dickinson was killed in a duel by Andrew Jackson in the spring of 1806. His grave was found last year, and he will be reburied in Nashville’s historic city cemetery later this week.  

The Overby family of Eden, North Carolina, recovered a bateau pole from the Dan River during a recent fishing trip. “It’s a very significant find. Bateau artifacts are very rare,” said historian Lindley Butler. The pole is being conserved by scientists at the state’s Underwater Archaeology Branch.  

Recent excavation of the Plaza de la Constitucion, the earliest plaza in St. Augustine, Florida, has “totally changed how we look at the Plaza,” said Charles Tingley of the St. Augustine Historical Society.  

Two seventeenth-century ice houses were uncovered in Bristol, England, along with intact pottery and glass wine bottles. “Normally ice houses would be found in grand country houses. … What we believe we have here is a domestic version on a much smaller scale, which is unusual,” said archaeologist Andrew Young.  

Some 20,000 people gathered at Stonehenge this morning to mark the summer solstice. “One time in maybe 10 we get a decent sunrise, and that was a good one,” said Simon Banton of English Heritage. Police arrested 34 of the revelers, the majority for drug possession.

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