Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Police recovered a wood sarcophagus, two wooden statues, and seven pieces of inscribed limestone that had been stolen from Saqqara.

At a recent symposium at the Royal Ontario Museum, archaeologists discussed the excavation of Godin Tepe, which is located in western Iran. Some think the unusual openings in the mud-brick oval’s walls may have been “takeout windows” for food and ammunition 5,200 years ago. “As far as I know, that is the only example of those odd, framing windows. We don’t usually find windows at all,” said Hilary Gopnik of Emory University.

Here’s some background information on the discovery of the 9,300-year-old human remains known as Kennewick Man in 1996, and the recent discovery of a human jawbone near the same site.

Artifacts recovered from the Queen Anne’s Revenge are being conserved at a lab at East Carolina University, and eventually they will go on display at the North Carolina Maritime Museum. The process is expected to take ten to 15 years.

Three historical groups in St. Augustine, Florida, will begin the construction of two replica sixteenth-century Spanish ships. “We do living history … and so adding this piece of it really helps tell the story of St. Augustine in a much more vivid way,” said John Stavely of the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park.

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