Archaeologists from the Spanish National Research Council claim to have found a concrete structure marking the spot where Julius Caesar was stabbed on March 14, 44 B.C. The structure is located at the Curia of Pompey, the spot where classical tests record the assassination taking place. It may have been erected as a memorial to the fallen leader.

Sections of Camp Lawton’s stockade wall have been found at Magnolia Springs State Park in Georgia. More than 10,000 Union soldiers had been imprisoned at the camp, which was one of the largest prisoner of war camps of the Civil War. Archaeologists used a number of different technologies, including ground penetrating radar and magnetometry, to locate the walls. They also recovered timbers that may have been part of the stockade from Magnolia Spring.

The Pyramid of Khafre and six tombs have been reopened after a long restoration project, as part of the continuing effort of government officials to reassure tourists that Egypt is safe to visit. Tourism had dropped sharply after last year’s revolution, but western visitors are slowly beginning to return.

Border patrol agents on foot in the Patagonia Mountains discovered an intact pot and a rim of another pot estimated to be 1,000 years old. The agents notified the U.S. Forest Service. The pots have been recovered for study.

Here’s more information on the colonial-era wall paintings found beneath some plaster in a home in Guatemala. Farmer Lucas Asicona was renovating his home when he uncovered the murals, which depict Europeans performing the so-called “conquest dance,” beating drums and playing flutes. “We try to keep the kids away from it and keep people from touching it. [But] the house is very humid and some of the colors have been fading. The black has started to turn gray and some of the other colors have lost their shine, but we do what we can without any funding,” he said. A dozen other homes in the village could also contain Maya murals.

Isotopes found in Kennewick Man’s bones indicate that he hunted and ate marine animals, such as seals. “You would have to eat salmon 24 hours a day and you would not reach these values. This is a man from the coast, not a man from here. I think he is a coastal man,” said physical anthropologist Doug Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Owsley met with tribal leaders from the Columbia Plateau at Central Washington University, where he told them about his most recent findings on Kennewick Man, the name given to a skeleton discovered in 1996 along the banks of the Columbia River. The bones are more than 9,500 years old. Owsley has stated in the past that the shape of the man’s skull is more similar to that of an Asian Coastal people, and that he has found no genetic relationship between Kennewick Man and Native American peoples. This was the first time it has been suggested that Kennewick Man did not even live in the region. Owsley and other scientists went to court to gain access to the skeleton, while tribal leaders wanted the remains reburied.

Archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History have found a 1,300-year-old tomb at the site of Bocana del Rio Copalita in Oaxaca. The tomb contained the remains of a man estimated to have been between 20 and 23 years old at the time of his death. He had been buried with a severed femur that may have been used as a baton. “This finding will help us to understand the funerary practices of the civilizations that occupied Copalita, especially its elite from which we have no information until now,” said Raul Matadamas Diaz, director of the project. The tomb was surrounded by 22 burials, including the remains of a woman who had been buried face down.

Additional human burials have been discovered in the neighborhood of Kakaako, along the 20-mile route of a planned transit rail line in Honolulu. Hawaii’s Supreme Court halted the construction of the rail line in August because it said that the City of Honolulu did not follow the state’s historic preservation and burial protection laws, which require an archaeological survey to be completed before construction begins. The project had originally been segmented into four parts, with surveys and construction taking place segment-by-segment.

A man hired to help with an archaeological excavation of Roman-era ruins in Bulgaria’s city of Sofia has been arrested for stealing ancient coins from the site. The dig is located near a metro station and is a popular stop for residents.

Surveillance cameras are being used in Kentucky to catch those responsible for damage to Civil War artifacts on display at the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. “I can’t think of a bigger waste of time than law enforcement rangers having to constantly keep an eye on the cannons and maintenance workers having to constantly repaint the cannons,” said Chief Ranger Martha Wiley.