The nine-year-long restoration of the so-called Hallaton Helmet has been completed at the British Museum. The ceremonial Roman cavalry helmet, which dates to the time of the Roman invasion of Britain, was unearthed in Leicestershire.

Some 3,000 cave paintings have been discovered in central Mexico spread out over 40 rock art sites. They range in age from nearly 2,000 years old to the twentieth century.

Archaeologist Kathy Deagan responds to a recent article in The St. Augustine Record which promoted two television shows about treasure hunting  in America’s oldest permanent European settlement. “Neither of those programs seems to have any clue about how history is revealed and acknowledged,” she writes.

The remains of two giant land tortoises found in Florida’s Little Salt Spring are being examined for butchering marks. “That actually would represent the oldest traces of human activity in the Southeast United States,” explained John Gifford of the University of Miami. None of the tools recovered so far in the spring are more than 10,000 years old.

A ceramic stamp engraved with an image of the Temple Menorah has been uncovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority at the site of Horbat Uza. Researchers think the stamp was used to mark kosher bread.  Here’s more information on the stamp.

Archaeologists are interested in protecting the Apollo landing sites on the Moon from damage by future spacecraft. “I think it’s humanity’s heritage,” said Beth L. O’Leary of New Mexico State University.

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