A 2,700-year-old tomb discovered in a pyramid in southern Mexico may be the oldest pyramid tomb to be documented in Mesoamerica. The tomb was built by the Zoque Indians, and ceramics inside the tomb show influences from the Olmec culture.

Greek police have confiscated two marble statues from two farmers who tried to sell them. 

Excavations in Kultepe, Turkey, revealed inscriptions about going to prison, release from prison, and facing punishment in prison. “It is a significant indication that there were many prisons in Anatolia approximately 4,000 years ago,” said archaeologist Fikri Kulakoglu.  

Young students get to help archaeologist David Bush of Heidelberg University at Johnson’s Island Civil War prison. 

Unauthorized salvage is the biggest threat to the HMS Victory, which sank in the English Channel in 1744, killing 1,000 sailors. Rumors that the ship was carrying gold bullion at the time it sank make it vulnerable to treasure hunters.  

Women made faience beads at home in ancient Egypt, says Mark Eccleston of Australia’s La Trobe University. “There is an increasing amount of evidence that work was done in the home to provide extra income for the household,” he explained.  

A nineteenth-century gold coin bearing the likeness of Napoleon III has been unearthed in Jaffa, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority. European gold coins were in use in remote parts of the Ottoman Empire until the end of the First World War.  

Mountaineer Duncan Chessell will search Mount Everest for evidence that Andrew “Sandy” Irvine and George Mallory reached the peak in 1924, 29 years earlier than Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Mallory’s camera and Irvine’s body have never been found.

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