A storeroom in the Sutton Hoo Visitors Center has yielded a couple of cardboard boxes packed with more than 400 amateur photographs taken during the excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939. “We assume that whoever received the boxes didn’t know what was in them and they were just put away in a store cupboard and forgotten,” said learning officer Claire Worland.

Acoustic scientists have experimented with some well-preserved shell instruments unearthed at Chavín de Huántar, a pre-Inca ceremonial center in Peru, and even played them in the stone chamber in which they were found.  

A multi-million-dollar sports complex is scheduled to be built near American Indian sites in Oxford, Alabama, including a man-made mound. Human remains were discovered last February, stopping the project temporarily.  

Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal has been surveyed by Environmental Protection Agency archaeologist John Vetter. Remote sensing technology picked up traces of nineteenth-century boats, anchors, and anchor chains.  

Two Chinese government agencies will work together to protect China’s underwater cultural heritage.

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