The graves of three Neanderthal individuals have been unearthed in southeastern Spain, at the site of Sima de las Palomas, the first known Neanderthal burial ground in Mediterranean Europe. “Such discoveries are extraordinarily uncommon,” said Michael Walker of the University of Murcia. 

Here’s more information on the brick tombs and a well uncovered in Hanoi during road work. The tombs were built in the fourth and sixth centuries, and resemble tombs in the Thang Long Royal Citadel. “I think that under the tombs and the well is a complexity of relics, perhaps the entire village along the Red River,” said Nguyen Lan Cuong of the Vietnam Archaeology Institute.

Archaeologists in England have been excavating an unfinished castle that was started in the 1100s near lands claimed by both the King of Scotland and the Earl of Chester. The Earl eventually moved the border of his lands 60 miles to the north and the castle was no longer needed. 

Would now be a good time to visit Athens?

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