Two partially mummified bodies were discovered at the burial ground located in Mexico’s Giant’s Cave. The remains are thought to be between 800 and 1,000 years old.

Two people were arrested in Istanbul for attempting to sell artifacts at the Grand Bazaar.

The York Archaeological Trust continues to study the skeletons unearthed between 2004 and 2005 at Driffield Terrace. “Arguments continue as to whether they were trained fighters, soldiers who died in battle, whether they were executed or whether the unusual aspects of their burial reflect a group with unusual religious views,” explained Sarah Maltby.

Here’s some information on Delphi and its oracle from the Greek newspaper E Kathimerini.

England’s “Portal to the Past” project will compile all available data into a digital archive of maps and information from the Bronze Age through 1086. “We hope this project will provide an in-depth analysis of the whole of England, so we can glean new insights into how the landscape has changed and developed,” said Chris Gosden of the University of Oxford.

Archaeologists from the University of South Alabama have surveyed the Old Federal Road, which connected Augusta, Georgia, to Mobile, Alabama, 200 years ago.

The fossilized skull of a 20 million-year-old primate, Ugandapithecus major, has been found in Uganda.

South Africa’s Pinnacle Point was the home to a few surviving Homo sapiens between 164,000 and 120,000 years ago, according to Curtis Marean of Arizona State University. He says that Stone Age people tracked the moon’s phases in order to harvest shellfish and that they engaged in ritual activities. “Our excavations may have intercepted ancient people who shadowed the shifting shoreline and are the ancestors of everyone on the planet,” he said.

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