Peru has filed legal papers to dismiss allegations of fraud and conspiracy from its lawsuit against Yale University. Peru is suing for the return of artifacts removed by a Yale scholar from Maccu Picchu between 1911 and 1915.

Trial dates have been set for eight more defendants in the federal artifacts-trafficking sting in Utah and the Four Corners region, despite the death of a key witness known as “The Source.”   

A gas pipeline project has revealed at least a dozen well-preserved shipwrecks in the worm-free waters of the Baltic Sea. The oldest is thought to be about 800 years old.  

USA Today highlights an online article from ARCHAEOLOGY about the Iron Age necropolis of Orthi Petra at Eleutherna on Crete.   Read the original, “Dynasty of Priestesses,” by Eti Bonn-Muller.   

There’s more on the Maya water system discovered at Palenque. “With 56 springs, nine perennial waterways, aqueducts, pleasure pools, dams, and bridges – the city truly lived up to its ancient name, Lakamha, or ‘Big Water,'” according to a recent article in the Journal of Archaeological Science.   

Two grain elevators survive along the industrial riverfront of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  

A memorial has been dedicated immigrants whose unmarked graves were disturbed during subway construction in Los Angeles. Many had been Chinese laborers who had been denied burial in the local cemetery. “This day is a long time in coming,” said Congressional Representative Judy Chu.

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