German art historian Bert Praxenthaler continues the quest to rebuild Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. He says that up to half of the pieces of the statues have been recovered from the rubble.

Tell Qarqur, located in northwest Syria, was occupied for 10,000 years, and even grew at a time when many settlements in the Middle East were collapsing. Did climate change, drought, and politics play a role in the decline?

Who dug the Erdstalls of southern Germanyand why? These narrow dirt tunnels and galleries are thought by some to the homes of elves, gnomes, or spirits. Archivist Josef Weichenberger thinks they were medieval hiding places.

A World War II landing craft capsized off the coast of the Isle of Wight while heading for the D-Day landings in 1944, spilling tanks and other cargo into the sea. Divers and maritime archaeologists are working together to map the wreck site and apply land legislation to this underwater case.

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