In central Poland, archaeologists have unearthed a cemetery dating to the late tenth and early eleventh centuries A.D. The graves contained high-status weapons, jewelry, coins, and other ornaments, in addition to three puzzling skeletons.

The origin of some of the rocks at Stonehenge has been confirmed to be in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Archaeologists think the information will help them determine how the bluestones were moved to Wiltshire.

Ohio’s ancient farmers probably aligned their earthworks to celestial cycles in order to plan for feasts and other social obligations.

Shaun Whitehead of Scoutek UK plans to continue exploring the narrow passages within Egypt’s Great Pyramid. In the last expedition, a robot carrying a camera that can see around corners photographed a chamber that had not been seen for 4,500 years. “Our strategy is to keep an open mind and only draw conclusions when we have completed our work,” he said.

Volunteers and archaeologists examined traces of Jane Austen’s first home, located in Hampshire, England, where she wrote drafts of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey. The house was demolished in the early nineteenth century.

Scientists in Sweden tested material from a tomb thought to belong to the medieval King Magnus Ladulås. Instead, they found the remains of at nine people who had been buried at least 200 years after his time. They think King Magnus Ladulås may be buried somewhere else in Stockholm’s Riddarholmen Church.

The Archaeological Conservancy has purchased the site of a colonial-era blockhouse in upstate New York. Known as the Royal Blockhouse, it was built in 1758 and stood near Fort Edward and Rogers Island.

Archaeologist Kathleen Deagan has found a seventeenth-century stone church in Florida. Her team is trying to determine if it was built by the Spanish in 1677, or by the English in 1702.

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