SOBIBOR, POLAND—Live Science reports that four identity tags have been unearthed at the site of the Sobibor Nazi death camp in eastern Poland by a team of Israel Antiquities Authority researchers. Each of the four tags is different, and all are thought to have been given to children by their (...)

BOULDER, COLORADO—According to a statement released by the University of Colorado at Boulder, archaeologist William Taylor and his colleagues have conducted a new study of the so-called “Lehi horse,” a pony-sized skeleton discovered in north-central Utah in 2018. It had been previously thought (...)

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA—According to a Gizmodo report, ten blue glass beads crafted in Venice, Italy, in the mid-to-late fifteenth century have been found at three different pre-Columbian sites in northern Alaska. Michael Kunz of the University of Alaska Museum of the North and Robin Mills of the (...)

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA—Voice of America reports that more than 100 artifacts held in a private collection in Bangkok and London will be returned to Cambodia, after three years of negotiations with the Cambodian government and the filing of federal charges in New York alleging falsifying of (...)

DEMRE, TURKEY—Dozens of terracotta figurines have been discovered on Turkey’s southwestern coast in the ancient Lycian town of Myra by a team of researchers led by Nevzat Çevik of Akdeniz University, according to a Live Science report. The 2,200-year-old sculptures were found along with other (...)

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—According to a Science News report, Karin Sowada of Macquarie University and her colleagues conducted a CT scan of an Egyptian mummy that was purchased by a collector in the mid-nineteenth century and that has been dated to about 1200 B.C. The scan detected a layer of mud (...)

KARNATAKA, INDIA—The Times of India reports that a twelfth-century sculpture depicting Vishnu has been discovered at a temple site near India’s southwestern coast. In Hinduism, the god Vishnu preserves and protects the universe, and is often shown with blue skin and four arms. This sculpture is (...)

WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that archaeologists have examined some 1,800 test pits and more than 400 trial trenches along the path of the proposed two-mile A303 tunnel at Stonehenge. Burnt flint found in ditches near an enclosure may reflect the process of metal or leatherworking at (...)

ODISHA, INDIA—The Hindustan Times reports that researchers led by Arun Malik of the Archaeological Survey of India uncovered traces of a building thought to be a tenth-century temple while excavating an area next to the eleventh-century Suka-Sari temple complex, which is located near eastern (...)

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS—Live Science reports that five Roman-style longswords were discovered in a 1,500-year-old house located in central Sardis, western Turkey’s ancient capital of the kingdom of Lydia, by Harvard University's Archaeological Expedition of Sardis under the direction of Nicholas (...)