A 2,700-year-old burial complex in central China has yielded the sacrificial remains of humans and animals. Such sacrifices were often made to bless houses, according to David Sena of the University of Texas at Austin.

In Canada, the Curve Lake First Nation will rebury some 2,000-year-old human bones that were discovered beneath a parking lot as part of a five-day ceremony.  

Excavations will continue at the site of an eighteenth-century Acadian home in Canada’s Prince Edward Island.  

Do you dream of hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu? Multimedia producer Paul Goguen gives a brief description of his experience traveling up the mountain.  

Survival International, an organization that campaigns on behalf of tribal groups around the world, says that eight travel companies were on India’s tropical Andaman Islands, illegally promoting tours to see the Jarawa people. “The Jarawa people lived successfully on their island without contact with outsiders for probably about 55,000 years, until 1988. They call themselves the Ang, which means human being, yet they are being ogled at like animals in a game reserve,” said Stephen Corry, director of Survival International.  

Italian scientists think they may have found skeletal remains of the Baroque artist known as Caravaggio.  He may have died of sunstroke while weakened by syphilis.  

The wreckage of an Italian merchant ship sunk in 1943 by a British torpedo has been located off the coast of Albania. “This discovery will be of interest for experts of the period to shed light on the fate of this Italian ship that was sunk at a time when Italy was capitulating on the war front,” according to a statement from Albania’s Institute of Archaeology.  

A thirteenth-century copper badge bearing the images of three lions is said to resemble England’s World Cup logo. The badge may have come from a horse’s harness, and was unearthed last week in a stone wall in Coventry. “This has been hidden for hundreds of years and for it to appear now has to be a sign that England will go all the way in the World Cup,” said archaeologist Caroline Rann.

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