The granite body to a statue of a Ptolemaic-era king has been unearthed at the temple of Taposiris Magna, near Alexandria, Egypt. Enjoy these pictures of Egyptian crocodile mummies at National Geographic Daily News. The mummies were given computed tomography scans at the Stanford School of Medicine in California.   Pottery found beneath Aviles Street in […]

An intact prehistoric site on private land is being excavated in Wisconsin this summer to make room for a highway expansion project. Pottery, stone points, and debris from tool making have been found. “We could put a sign out warning people that it’s an archaeological site, but that’s like the Wizard of Oz telling people […]