The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has one more license up for grabs, and it could result in a resort casino being constructed just south of Gettysburg National Military Park. A decision is expected in either December or January.

Archaeologists and volunteers have unearthed a wall from a mission-era building at the privately owned Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park in St. Augustine, Florida. “It follows Spanish architectural design, but it’s a Native American structure,” said city archaeologist Carl Halbirt.  

An archivist at London’s National Portrait Gallery stumbled upon a nineteenth-century cigarette box containing bits of King Richard II’s coffin and sketches and measurements of his bones. The graves of several monarchs buried at Westminster Abbey had been opened at that time.  

An excavation in Istanbul’s suburbs has uncovered an ancient road, a settlement laid out on a grid plan, a grave stele, a Roman relief, and a fragment from an Egyptian porphyry column.  

Late nineteenth-century artifacts were recovered from the site of Kirby Bros Coach Builders and Blacksmith in Blenheim, New Zealand.

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