An eighteenth-century Spanish ship was unearthed during the construction of an apartment complex in Buenos Aires. The area had once been the city’s port.  BBC News has a photograph of an olive oil jar found in the ship. “So far, it has yielded several cannons, a pair of jugs we think were used to carry olive […]

A new survey of the Great Wall in Inner Mongolia shows that one fifth of the monument is gone. Archaeologists blame the weather and human activity for its disappearance. The name of the goddess Vesta was reportedly found on the lid of a 4,000-year-old pot discovered in central Macedonia.   More than 250 bronze artifacts, including […]