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- Radiocarbon dated to about 2100 BC, the oldest presently known gold artifacts in the Americas were reported from the site of Jiskairumoko in the southern Peruvian highlands of the Lake Titicaca Basin.[1][2]
- Herod's tomb found in the Herodian (Israel) after more than 30 years of searching.[3]
- In Athens the long-lost Theseus Ring, a gold ring found in the Plaka district of Athens in the 1950s and generally dismissed as a fake, has been identified by Greek archaeologists as a genuine 15th century B.C.E. artifact. The Greek press had reported the discovery of a gold signet ring, with dimensions 2.7 x 1.8 cm dating from the Minoan period.[4]
- Archaeologists are working on a newly-discovered mass burial site at the historic Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton. They tell CBC the burial ground, just east of reconstruction work near the coast, is the first discovery of its kind at the 250-year-old site. The graveyard dates back to the winter of 1745-46 following the first siege of the French fortress by British forces. Louisbourg was one of France’s key North American holdings during the 18th century and among the busiest harbours on the continent. About a quarter of the site has been rebuilt. [5]
- A pirogue dating back 8,000 years is discovered in Lake Bracciano, near the Neolithic village of La Marmotta in Italy. [6]
- French archaeologists uncover an 11,000 year old building on the banks of the Euphrates River in northern Syria. [7]
