In Turkey, drought has revealed a large, 1,600-year-old harbor town that archaeologists are calling Bathonea. The port is located some 13 miles from the center of Istanbul. “The discoveries made are now shedding a completely new light to the wider urbanized area of Constantinopolis. A fantastic story begins to unveil,” commented Voker Heyd of the University of Bristol.

Construction workers unearthed a cache of Maya pottery and human bones in western Belize, near the site of Cahal Pech.

A new remote-sensing technology, called the fluxgate magnetometer, has been used to examine one of Ohio’s earthworks. The fluxgate magnetometer measures variations in the magnetic properties of soil, and was used to create an image of the Shriver Circle, which can no longer be seen on the ground.

New digital technologies are used to record information in the field, but will that data remain accessible? “We have to take care of the research data collections so they can be reused in the future to answer new questions and to make discoveries,” said Maria Esteva of the Texas Advanced Computing Center.

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