The bodies of 21 German soldiers, who had been buried alive in 1918 when an Allied shell exploded above their shelter tunnel, have been recovered in the Alsace region of France and handed over to the German War Graves Commission. “Everything collapsed in seconds and is just the way it was at the time,” said archaeologist Michael Landolt.

A joint Italian-American team is excavating Kinik Hoyuk, a pre-classical, intact site from the “forgotten kingdom of Tuwana” in southern Cappadocia, Turkey. This wealthy region once controlled the passage between Europe and Asia. The site of will become an open-air museum.

Author Barry Landau has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal documents signed by historical figures from American archives. The FBI seized 10,000 documents and artifacts from his Manhattan apartment.

At Western Washington University, students and professors retrieved a time capsule that was buried in 1912 and reburied in the 1980s. The school has a long tradition of burying and retrieving time capsules.

“Nonhardened fossils,” or paleofeces, provide archaeologists with a source of human DNA and information about early dietary habits. This article explains how scientists extract the information.

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