A tunnel flanked by chambers has been found in Mexico, beneath the central ceremonial area of the city of Teotihuacan. “There is a high possibility that in this place, in the central chamber, we can find the remains of those who ruled Teotihuacan,” said archaeologist Sergio Gomez.

A local man discovered a cave containing petroglyphs and bas-relief sculptures in the Dominican Republic. The artwork could be 5,000 years old.  

A 3,500-year-old bronze bracelet has been unearthed in northern Israel at the site of a Canaanite farming village near Ramat Razim.  

Excavations at The Theater, known as London’s oldest playhouse, have revealed ceramic money boxes and evidence of heavy drinking. The Theater was known in its day as a “school for all wickedness and vice.”  

A roof finial made of clay was found on the shores of the River Thames, near the Tower of London. “It gives a fascinating insight into the lost roofscape of medieval London, which we know relatively little about,” said Roy Stephenson of the Museum of London.  

David Silverman, curator of “Tutankhamaun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,” now on exhibit in New York City, thinks that the chariot that has been added to the show was one that was actually used. “My feeling is that this is the chariot the king actually did use in his war and hunting rides. It is smaller, much lighter, much faster and lacks in decoration. One tire is extremely worn, the other is newer. You don’t replace things unless you expect to re-use them,” he explained.  

A park surrounding the hidden Miami Circle could be open to the public by the end of the year. The 2,000-year-old circle sits at the mouth of the Miami River and has been designated a National Historic Landmark.  

Here’s an update on the eighteenth-century ship unearthed at the World Trade Center site.  

A jug containing 166 silver coins dating to the fourteenth century was unearthed at the medieval fortress of Kastritsi, on the coast of the Black Sea.  

Bulgarian politician Bozhidar Dimitrov announced the discovery of a reliquary inscribed with the name of the Christian saint John the Baptist and is running with it, despite the cautionary words spoken by Bulgarian archaeologists. “The other archaeologists are shaken by wild envy of their colleague,” according to Dimitrov.  Meanwhile, Bulgaria’s culture minister, Vezhdi Rashidov, has called the reliquary “very engaging and pleasant,” but urges the media to wait for the archaeologists’ test results.

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