A lifeguard recovered a Byzantine-era ship’s anchor from the waters near Tel Aviv. Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority will investigate the area for signs of a previously unknown ancient harbor and shipwrecks.

Bison bones estimated to be between 200 and 6,000 years old have been recovered from Minnesota’s Lake Victoria. The bones carry the marks of tools. “There are not that many kill sites in Minnesota,” said archaeologist David Mather.

Twenty-seven acres of land have been donated to the Alabama Historical Commission to help preserve the state’s first capital, known as Old Cahawba. “It’s an absolutely magical place,” said archaeologist Linda Derry.

A Byzantine mansion and a Roman villa with well-preserved wall paintings have been discovered at Pisidian Antioch in Turkey. The marble mosaic floors had been removed.

Thousands of geoglyphs  made from stones are visible across the Middle East in aerial photographs and satellite images. “Sometimes when you’re actually there on the site you can make out something of a pattern but not very easily. Whereas if you go up just a hundred feet or so it, for me, comes sharply into focus what the shape is,” said David Kennedy of the University of Western Australia.

A stone engraved with Pictish symbols has been found built into the wall of a farm in Highland Scotland.

Time has more information on the unusual clay disks unearthed in Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve.

An excavation ahead of a road construction project in Montana has turned up artifacts from a reservation once inhabited by the Crow tribe, which had fought with General Custer against the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. In 1880, the tribe was forced to a smaller reservation by the U.S. government.

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