A live bomb dating to World War II was discovered by construction site workers in southern France. The bomb was carefully neutralized and transported to a military base where it will be destroyed.

Sports scientists are studying skeletons recovered from King Henry VIII’s warship, the Mary Rose, to learn how heavy bows changed the bodies of the elite archers who had been on board. “One of the skeletons we have looked at, the surface area of the joint between the lower arm and the elbow is 48 percent larger than on the joint on the other arm,” said Nick Owen of Swansea University.

Artifacts found in a cave near Bulgaria’s St Athanasius monastery could mark the site as the oldest monastery in Europe.

Archaeologist Rebecca Schwendler excavated the outhouse located in her backyard in Lafayette, Colorado, and found numerous artifacts, including medicine bottles, poker chips, a teacup, buttons, animal bones, and two Edison light bulbs.

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