A 1,400-year-old tomb has been found in southern Mexico. Edgar Pineda of the National Institute of Anthropology and History explained that it had been built by the Chontal ethnic group, and that it had probably been situated beneath a building in the center of an ancient city.

Some 26,000 acres of land in northern Arizona have been added to Petrified Forest National Park, including areas that could contain basketmaker villages and petroglyph sites.

Housing development in Sydney, Australia, has revealed campsites and artifacts made by the Darug people.

Here’s more information on the joint excavation projects conducted by students from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Queen’s University in Belfast. “Lowell was an early Irish center of immigration. The more we collaborated, the more we identified a common interest of studying the pre- and post-immigration lifestyles of the Irish,” said Frank Talty of the Center for Irish Partnerships at the University of Massachusetts.

The first textile mill in Todmorden, a town in West Yorkshire, England, is being excavated as part of a flooding defense project. The mill was built in 1782 and it closed in 1961.

Archaeologists from the Maryland State Highway Administration, the Maryland Historical Trust, and the U.S. Navy have been working together to remove the silt covering an early U.S. gunboat that was scuttled in the Patuxent River during the War of 1812.

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