Four graves have been found at the site of a previously unknown Anglo-Saxon settlement on the outskirts of Cambridge, England. One of the graves contained the skeleton of a young woman who had been wearing a Christian pectoral cross made of gold and garnets. Her body had been placed on a bed that archaeologists think had been her own.

The ancient theater on the island of Delos will be restored. The island is one of a circular ring of islands known as the Cyclades. The Greek Central Archaeological Council anticipates that the project will increase tourism to the island.

Human bones were found while digging a trench for a retaining wall at a home in Deadwood, South Dakota. The site was a cemetery in the late nineteenth century. “There were no artifacts in the soil, nothing there around it, which is very unusual,” said Katie Lamie of the South Dakota State Historical Society Archaeological Research Center.

Analysis of obsidian blades excavated at the 11,000-year-old site of Göbekli Tepe, which is located in southern Turkey, has shown that they originated from a wide variety of places. Scientists debate the possible uses for the site. Some think it was a temple was visited by hunter-gatherers because no hearths, plant or animal remains, or buildings have been uncovered. “In theory, you could have people with different languages, very different cultures, coming together,” said Tristan Carter of McMaster University.

Here’s an article from Wired about the theft of the Benghazi Treasure from a bank vault in Libya last year.

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