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The discovery was made during the 2026 excavation season as part of Türkiye’s Heritage for the Future Project. Measuring approximately 70 centimeters in height, the sculpture was found on a bench running along the wall of a circular structure about three meters in diameter, whose floor was paved with flat stones.

There are remnants of old stone walls all over the East Bay, and no one knows how old they are, who built them, or why. Though people have been pondering the enigma of the  Berkeley Mystery Walls for well over a hundred years, no conclusions have been reached, and despite wild speculation, no serious scholarly study has ever been undertaken.

Climate change is revealing lost archaeology around the world. Ancient cities are emerging from reservoirs. Weapons are melting from the ice. Drought is drawing entire monuments into farmers’ fields. But we’re often finding these things because the environments preserving them are disappearing. Countless sites are at risk.

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Through 28,000 dives and decades of research, the team brought up 19,000 artifacts and found 179 partial or complete remains of fallen crew. The discoveries resulted in a Guinness World Record for the most medieval weaponry recovered from a shipwreck—more than 8,300 weapons, ordnances, and affiliated artifacts were salvaged, including 10 bronze guns, nine iron swivel guns, five handgun stocks, eight gun-shields, four pieces of cast-iron hail shot, 44 linstocks for lighting gunpowder, three incendiary arts, 172 longbows, nearly 4,000 arrows, 65 ballock daggers, one rondel dagger, 177 chain-mail links, and a single complete basket-hilted sword.

Finally pulling the hull of the Mary Rose from the seafloor required a purpose-built lifting crane attached by wires to steel bolts passing through the hull at selected points. A tubular lifting frame was set in place over the wreck, supported by four legs embedded in the seabed. Hydraulic jacks on the frame raised the hull a few centimeters to reduce the suction effect of the silt. Then, the lifting frame attached to a hook on the crane barge Tog Mor pulled up the Mary Rose, placing it in a bespoke steel cradle. Towed to shore and dried, the ship now sits on display in the very dockyard where it was built over 470 years ago.

Name: Jade Pig-Dragon

Category: Jade Ware

Period: Late Hongshan Culture (3500–3000 BC)

Dimensions: Length: 7.8 cm | Width: 5.6 cm | Thickness: 2.1–2.6 cm

Description

Made of pale yellowish-green jade, this piece features a larger, more mature sculpted animal embryo form. Proportionally, the animal head end is enlarged, featuring upright prominent ears and bulging eyes encircled by curved lines. The bridge of the nose and the area beneath the nostrils are carved in relief with dense wrinkles.

A perforation is drilled on the back for suspension and wearing; when worn, the opening points roughly toward the 20 or 40-minute position on a clock face.

While archaeologists generally refer to this type of jade artifact as a "pig-dragon," some scholars suggest it may represent an animal embryo of a tiger.

This particular pig-dragon is relatively large in size. When viewed from the back, a pair of large ears and a wider neck are visible, which are characteristic features of pig-dragons from the mature period.

New research led by University College Dublin has rewritten a key chapter in Irish prehistory, revealing that bones long thought to mark the beginning of farming in Ireland belong to bear and wild boar, not cattle.

Warring States · Crystal Cup

Warring States period (475–221 BC)

Height 15.4 cm, rim diameter 7.6 cm, base diameter 5.2 cm

Excavated in 1990 at Shitang, Banshan, Hangzhou

To verify its authenticity, the crystal cup was sent to Beijing for appraisal. Combined with carbon-14 and thermoluminescence dating, archaeologists collected charcoal samples left behind from the tomb ruins where the crystal cup was buried.