The remains of a temple dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet have been uncovered in Alexandria, Egypt. It had been built during the reign of Queen Berenike, wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes.

A stele bearing the image of a Maya ruler with a person at his feet has been discovered at the site of Lagartero in Mexico. Lagartero was occupied between 300 and 1200 A.D.  

Iran’s culture minister has reportedly threatened to cut cultural ties with Great Britain again over the Cyrus Cylinder.   

Australian archaeologist Martin Gibbs has been looking for a lost settlement of Spanish colonists whose ship was separated from the rest of their expedition in 1595. He recently compared Spanish pottery from St. Augustine, Florida, with pottery from a possible site on the Solomon Islands. “They are exactly the same. The difference is that our artifacts are made with reddish clay and are rougher in texture,” he said.   

Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa says that a text written in ink on a piece of pottery dating to the tenth century B.C. could indicate that portions of the Hebrew Bible were written four hundred years earlier than previously thought.  

Archaeology students at the University of Maryland have been busy analyzing 750,000 artifacts from historic Annapolis.   

A skeleton and a well were unearthed at England’s Yorkshire Museum, which had been built on the site of a medieval abbey.  

There are 150 Iron Age artifacts that were discovered 1943 in northern Wales, and then put on display at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, to the south. Now the people of Anglesey want some of the artifacts to come home. “I accept that these objects are of national and international interest. I accept that it’s important that some are in the National Museum in Cardiff, but there should be opportunities to bring some of these treasures back,” said Gwilym O. Jones, an Anglesey councilor.  

Historic manuscripts, including William Stukeley’s 1752 account of Isaac Newton and the apple tree, have been published online to mark the 350^th anniversary of the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of science.  

Retired pilot Rick Rogers is looking for a sixteenth or seventeenth-century shipwreck off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island. “It’s like I’m looking for UFOs,” he said, since most scholars think that Captain Cook was the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands in 1778.  

A scuba diver spotted the wreckage of a World War II-era dive bomber in the waters off Maui.  

The Archaeological Survey of India will cover the intricate lapidary inlay work in the Taj Mahal with protective glass.

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