Archaeologists in Libya have reported to their colleagues that their nation’s antiquities are safe, for the most part. “The antiquities in the major sites are unscathed. But a few sites in the interior sustained minor damage and are in need of assessments,” said Hafed Walda of King’s College London.

A palace discovered at the Plan de Ayutla site in Chiapas, Mexico, pushes back the Maya occupation of the Lacandona Jungle by some 200 years. The palace had been dismantled for newer construction.

A conservator at York Archaeological Trust will examine parts that have been recovered from the RMS Lusitania, which sank off the Irish coast in 1915. The parts include four portholes, part of the steering mechanism, and its telegraph.

Parks Canada archaeologists and Environment Minister Peter Kent presented an array of artifacts from the HMS Investigator in a press conference. The Investigator was abandoned in the ice while searching for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition in 1853.

A skull long thought to have belonged to Australian bushman Ned Kelly may actually have belonged to a man suspected of being Jack the Ripper.

Five chariots and 12 horses have reportedly found in a well-preserved tomb in Luoyang, China. The tomb dates to the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-221 B.C.).

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