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 St. Augustine, Florida, suggests that the road dates back to the early 1600s. City archaeologist Carl Halbirt claims that makes Aviles Street the oldest in the country.  

BBC News has a photograph of a rare Roman neck guard that was discovered at Carlisle Castle, located in northern England.  

A thirteenth-century skeleton excavated in southeast England belonged to a man from Tunisia who lived in England for about ten years before he died. “I believe this is the first physical evidence of Africans in medieval England,” commented Jim Bolton of the University of London.  

Six 2,300-year-old sculptures in Mexico’s Chakanbakan Archaeological Zone will be restored.  

A trial date has been set in October for the five remaining defendants in the federal artifact-trafficking sting operation that took place in Utah and the Four Corners region.  

Two burials consisting of wooden caskets were unearthed during construction of a modular prison unit in Pennsylvania. “We have no idea yet on how old the caskets are, but we think they possibly date back to the 1800s, when this land was the site of the Somerset Poor House and then the Somerset State Hospital. It may have been a pauper’s grave site,” explained prison spokeswoman Betsy Nightingale.

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