Excavations on the Gallipoli battlefield have revealed battlefield positions, in addition to clues to the diets eaten by Australian, New Zealand, and Turkish troops. “The tin cans of bully beef and jam were all largely found on the Allied side,” said Antonio Sagona of Melbourne University.

This video from BBC News shows how people made salt in Lincolnshire 2,000 years ago.

In Thailand, flooding caused by monsoon rains has killed at least 200 people and inundated as many historic temples.

Archaeologists have a special relationship with trash. “The way that ancient cities used to grow and change through time is actually very much related to the evolution of trash,” said Richard Meadow of Harvard University.

Here’s more information on the inscribed slate discovered at Nevern Castle in Wales. Archaeologists think the twelfth-century designs were intended to ward off evil.

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