PHOENIX, ARIZONA—This year, the Museum of Northern Arizona repatriated human bones and artifacts from its Sinagua collection to the Hopi Tribe under the Native American Graves Protection and ...

BELFAST, IRELAND—Researchers from the University of Southampton and Queen’s University, Belfast, have conducted a survey of 25 prehistoric sites in the United Kingdom and northwestern France.

CYPRUS—Carbon-dating of material found at a site in southeastern Cyprus suggests that the settling of the island began some 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. The site, Ayia Varvara ...

DURHAM, ENGLAND—A study led by Adriano Lameira, now of Durham University, suggests that ancestral great apes may have had control of their voices. It had been thought that great apes could only ...

ARTEZIAN, UKRAINE—Two 2,000-year-old treasure hoards consisting of bronze coins and other items made of gold, silver, and glass have been discovered within a burned fortress at the site of Artezian.

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—The Baltimore Sun reports that an excavation in Patterson Park by the nonprofit group Baltimore Heritage has uncovered a wall that may have been part of Jacob Laudenslager ...

SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA—A prehistoric boat effigy carved from brittle submarine volcano lava has been discovered on the surface of an archaeological site on San Clemente Island, which is ...

POMPEII, ITALY—Now that a two-year restoration project has been completed, the Villa of the Mysteries has reopened to visitors. The building’s paintings, which feature life-sized figures, are ...

LUXOR, EGYPT—The mummy of a wealthy woman whose sarcophagus had been trapped under a collapsed roof has been recovered from the necropolis below the temple of Pharaoh Thutmosis III (1490-1436 B ...

ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND—A petite pair of shoes labeled “Pauline Rome” has been discovered in the collections of the University of Aberdeen. Crafted from silk and leather, the early nineteenth ...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Haaretz reports that additional nineteenth-century wall paintings depicting images related to the Crusades were revealed during the repair of a broken water line at the Saint ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—New carbon dates taken from charcoal at the only Buddhist monastery in the Taxila Valley suggest that it was built in the third century B.C., or at least 300 years earlier ...