Two men have been arrested in northern Greece after police found an ancient gold wreath and an armband in a shoebox under the passenger seat of their car. The police had received a tip that one of the men might be trafficking in antiquities. Nikos Dimitriadis, head of the Thessaloniki police antiquities theft division, said that the artifacts had come from a Macedonian grave. The wreath is decorated with gold oak leaves and acorns. The armband is shaped with two knotted snakes and a red stone.

The search for The Bray School, an eighteenth-century school for free and enslaved African-American children, continues at the College of William & Mary. The original school building may now be a dormitory on campus known as the Dudley Digges House, which was moved in 1930. Another building was probably built on its foundation, but field school students may find school artifacts in the yard areas. “I hope they’ll find pencils embossed ‘The Bray School,’ but I would be happy with any evidence that might clarify what I think is the likely link between the Digges House at that location and the Bray School,” said Terry Meyers, a professor at the college.

Archaeologists digging in Persepolis have uncovered a section of the city’s sewage system  made up of branching canals. Persepolis was constructed in the late sixth century B.C. by Darius I in what is now southern Iran.

There are 123 unidentified Argentine soldiers buried in a military cemetery on the Falkland Islands. The cemetery was created by the British, who recovered the corpses at the end of the Falkland War in 1982 and buried them in individual coffins. Some of the relatives of the fallen would like Argentine scientists to exhume the graves and identify the remains. Others want the burials to remain undisturbed. The International Committee of the Red Cross is interviewing each family.

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