Swiss archaeologists say they have discovered a Neolithic door made of poplar wood at a site where five villages have been unearthed.

Burials at the Leper Hospital at St Mary Magdalen in Hampshire, England, have been dated to 960 to 1030 A.D., indicating that the hospital may have been England’s first. “Historically, it has always been assumed that hospitals were a post-conquest phenomena, the majority founded from the late eleventh century onwards,” said Simon Roffey of the University of Winchester.  

What is happening at Pompeii? Critics complain that the site is neglected, but British excavator Andrew Wallace-Hadrill says that “It’s such a gigantic challenge to preserve a city where there is such a terrifying rate of disintegration. It’s easy to fantasize that the British or the Americans or the French would look after it better, but none of them have ever had to prove themselves with a challenge on this scale.”  

National Geographic Daily News has posted photographs of the newly discovered, 4,350-year-old tomb of Rudj-Ka, an Egyptian priest who had been buried near the Great Pyramids at Giza.  

A tunnel estimated to be 200 years old was found in south Mumbai, India. Some think it may have been an escape route for British soldiers during the nineteenth century.  

A World War II-era bomb crater was spotted in Darwin, Australia. The city was subjected to 63 bombing raids during the war.

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