Eighteenth-century letters discovered in the British Library suggest that a man-made mound in southwest England was once topped with a 40-foot-tall pole. “This is important, lost information dug out of the library, rather than through field work,” said David Dawson, director of the Wiltshire Heritage Museum.   

An adobe perimeter wall at Peru’s Chan Chan archaeological complex is being restored.  

Greece’s Culture Ministry has designated a shipwreck off the coast of the island of Polyaigos as an underwater archaeological site. Amphorae from the wreck date to the end of the fifth and the first half of the fourth century B.C.  

Here’s more information on the domestication of turkeys in Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States.  

Excavation has begun at Egypt’s Avenue of Sphinxes, which connects the Luxor and Karnak temples, as part of a plan to make Luxor an open-air museum.  

Colossus, the computer that helped the British decipher coded Nazi messages during World War II, is working once again.

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