CAMPECHE, MEXICO—According to a BBC News report, the ruins of a Maya city have been discovered under jungle canopy in southeastern Mexico, just a 15-minute hike from a major road. The city is thought to have been home to between 30,000 and 50,000 people between A.D. 750 and 850. Luke …

Gold bird pendant TVÅÅKER, SWEDEN—A Viking Age cemetery that contained more than 100 graves and several boat-shaped mounds known as stone ships has been found in southwestern Sweden by researchers led by Petra Nordin of Sweden’s National Historical Museums, according to a Live Science report. “The problem is that the …

Hominin burial with red deer jawbone leaning against the pelvis HAIFA, ISRAEL—A study conducted by Ella Been of Ono Academic College and Omry Barzilai of the University of Haifa has compared the burial practices of modern humans and Neanderthals who lived in the Levant during the Middle Paleolithic period, according …

Osteoarchaeologist Hanne Ekstrøm Jordahl collects the human remains from the well TRONDHEIM, NORWAY—According to a Cosmos Magazine report, a skeleton recovered from a well at central Norway’s Sverresborg Castle in 1938 has been radiocarbon dated, and a sample of the DNA collected from the remains has been analyzed by researchers …

Rectangular burnt house with remains of built installations and vessels for food storage, Svinjarička Čuka, Serbia SVINJARIČKA ČUKA, SERBIA—According to a Newsweek report, traces of an 8,000-year-old house belonging to the Starčevo culture have been unearthed in the Balkans region of southeastern Europe. The rectangular structure, made of wattle and …

Decorated ivory, Wangzhuang, China YONGCHENG, CHINA—Xinhua reports that a 5,000-year-old royal tomb of the Dawenkou Culture has been unearthed in central China’s Wangzhuang ruins, which have been dated to between 4000 and 2600 B.C. “The latest discovery indicates that the Wangzhuang ruins are not an ordinary settlement but rather, the …

QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO—According to a report in Mexico News Daily, two platforms with stucco reliefs have been uncovered at a ball court in the Dzibanché Archaeological Zone on the Yucatán Peninsula by researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The reliefs have yielded information about the Kaanul …

Wall painting depicting Phaedra and Hippolytus from the House of Phaedra, Pompeii, Italy ROME, ITALY—Reuters reports that a small house lacking an atrium but decorated with well-preserved frescoes has been discovered in the Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. The …

DORSET, ENGLAND—Dorset View reports that a nearly complete wooden spade was uncovered in a waterlogged area near Poole Harbor in southern England by researchers from Wessex Archaeology. “It’s made of oak and radiocarbon dating of the wood itself confirms it is ca. 3,500 to 3,400 years old, placing it firmly …

Composite lidar view of Tugunbulak, Uzbekistan ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI—Lidar surveys have revealed that two medieval towns about three miles apart in the mountains of Uzbekistan may have eventually become one large urban center, according to a Newsweek report. Archaeologist Michael Frachetti of Washington University in St. Louis said that the …