A team of archaeologists from the University of Birmingham and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection used geophysical imaging techniques to investigate the land around Stonehenge. The scientists found a possible procession route, which could indicate that the site may have been a ritual center long before the stones were placed in position.

Libya’s new government displayed Roman artifacts said to have been confiscated in August from fleeing troops loyal to Gaddafi. “They were captured in cars belonging to Gaddafi militia which shows they were probably planning to smuggle them out of the country to fund their fight,” said Saleh Algabe, the new director of the Antiquities Department.

The Istanbul Archaeology Museum has begun renovating its buildings to make them more earthquake resistant.

Boston’s African Meeting House, the oldest black church in America, will reopen next month after the completion of an extensive restoration project. The three-story brick building was instrumental in the nineteenth-century anti-slavery movement.

The well-preserved leather trappings of an ancient Egyptian chariot have been rediscovered in a storeroom at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. “The trappings should help us to understand more about chariot construction and use, which in turn will be important for our knowledge of ancient Egyptian warfare and elite display,” said Susanna Harris of University College London. No one knows where the artifacts were first found.

This entry was posted by Jessica E. Saraceni on Monday, November 28, 2011. Discussion of this blog entry is now closed.

Comments posted here do not represent the views or policies of the Archaeological Institute of America.