Heavy rains triggered the collapse of two ancient walls at Pompeii this morning.

Archaeologists are still looking for evidence of cannibalism among the travelers of the infamous Donner Party. The Donner Party was traveling west when snow storms trapped them at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846.  

Here’s more information on the Hawaiian Archaeological Survey database, which has been made available to the public by the Bishop Museum.  

Two-hundred five years ago, Scottish immigrants brought a family heirloom to Nova Scotia. It turns out that the heirloom is a one-of-a-kind, seventeenth-century chanter, or the part of a bagpipe that creates melody. The last private owners of the artifacts have donated it to a Scottish museum, but some Canadians think the chanter should stay put. “Should we go up to Quebec and clear out all the silver made for New France? It doesn’t make much sense,” said bagpiping expert Barry Shears.

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