The international team mapping Stonehenge announced that another ceremonial monument has been found just a few hundred yards away from the stone circle. “It will completely change the way we think about the landscape around Stonehenge,” said Vince Gaffney of the University of Birmingham.  BBC News offers a video report on the discovery, complete with a virtual re-creation of the wooden henge.

How did Neolithic people living in northwestern France move their megaliths, known as menhirs? Scientists are giving tourists a chance to find out.  

Remote sensing equipment is being used to search the depths of Egypt’s Lake Qarun for slabs of volcanic rock spotted in a satellite survey. “I believe that these huge slabs are made of basalt which were eventually moved upstream to the Giza plateau for the construction of the Great Pyramid,” said Khaled Saeed of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.  

“The Bulgarian Machu Picchu” was a “fortress-sanctuary” on the outskirts of the Sredna Gora mountain range. The rulers of united Thracian tribes lived there from the fifth to the third centuries B.C., according to Ivan Hristov of the Bulgarian National History Museum, who is excavating the site.  

Learn more about the artifacts discovered in an intact Maya tomb beneath a pyramid at El Zotz in Guatemala.  Archaeologist Stephen Houston of Brown University talks about the excavation in this second article.  

Archaeologists from Parks Canada are setting out once again to search for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition.

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