According to an official Egyptian press release, “The American-Egyptian mission from Yale University has stumbled upon what appears to be the remains of a substantial settlement.” For more on the site, in the Kharga Oasis of Egypt’s western desert, see the widely circulated AP report.

Remains of a prehistoric child have been recovered from an underwater cave in the eastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The 10,000-year-old bones were found by divers who “stumbled” upon them.

Here’s more about “Odysseus’ palace.” This report has proper cautions: Palace? Yes, and that is neat. Odysseus? Don’t think so.

While planting jasmine in his garden in Georgetown, South Carolina, David Bertrand unearthed “a most unusual find.”

Excavations in Columbia, Pennsylvania, have yielded Native American artifacts from two different periods as well as a variety of historical finds (tin- and salt-glazed pottery, pipe fragments, buttons, etc.) from the Wright’s Ferry Mansion.

The residents of Kibworth, a village in Leicestershire, England, joined a dig as part of an upcoming BBC series. Among the finds were Roman-era pottery, prehistoric flint blades, and Saxon artifacts.

The debate about the Chinese warlord Cao Cao’s tomb is on. Experts at an academic forum in Suzhou have declared that the tomb is a fake. But the Shanghai Daily (subscription only) says “members of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences have denounced doubts swirling about the authenticity of the recently unearthed tomb” as unscientific. For background, see “The Tomb of China’s Most Notorious Villain, or Just a Tourist Trap” in our September/October issue (lengthy abstract online here).

Cholera or murder? A ghost story has led to the discovery of human remains in Malvern, Pennsylvania, perhaps of 57 Irish immigrants who may have met violent deaths there after a cholera epidemic struck in 1832.

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