Four ancient Buddhist caves have reportedly been destroyed during mining activities in central India.

Excavation of a monastery complex in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan has revealed a large statue of a seated Buddha.

A rare statue of the Roman emperor Caligula  was unearthed in a large nymphaeum south of Rome. The site was found when Italian police stopped looters from taking parts of the statue out of the country and archaeologists investigated the illegal dig.

A massive kiln was uncovered in South Carolina, at historic Pottersville. “When we arrived we thought we were looking for a groundhog kiln, but what we actually discovered was a kiln 105 feet in length,” said George Calfas of the University of Illinois.  Here’s some background information about the site.

In Montreal, archaeologists continue to look for traces of an early Canadian parliament building that was burned down by rioters in 1849.

Clean up of the BP oil spill has revealed archaeological artifacts along the Gulf Coast. “We’re filling in gaps. There is some pioneering archaeological work going on as a result of the oil spill,” said lead archaeologist Larry Murphy.

Residents of Madisonville, Louisiana, are looking for the grave of the town’s founder, Jean Baptiste Baham, but nothing has been found at the site of his eighteenth-century plantation.

A boulder bearing a petroglyph was returned to the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area in southern Nevada by helicopter. It had been stolen in 2008 by a real estate agent who put it in his front yard.

Are you part Neanderthal? A new study in the current issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution supports earlier findings that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred.

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