Seventy-three years after it sank to the North Atlantic ocean
floor, a joint U.S.-French expedition locates the wreck of the
RMS Titanic. The sunken liner was about 400 miles east of
Newfoundland in the North Atlantic, some 13,000 feet below
the surface.

Efforts to locate and salvage the Titanic began almost
immediately after it sank. But technical limitations—as
well as the sheer vastness of the North Atlantic search
area—made it extremely difficult.

American oceanographer and former Navy officer Robert D.
Ballard, who was based out of the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution in Massachusetts, led his first search expedition
in 1977, which was unsuccessful.

Ballard also discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy‘s
PT-109 in 2002.

Robert Duane Ballard (82)

Located at Mount Hotzvim in Jerusalem, a large quarry has been
under excavation, exposing more information on the Second
Temple time period when Jesus walked the Holy Land.

Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority excavated
the area that covers about 3,500 square meters, forming part
of a large field of quarries, according to a press release from
the Israel Antiquities Authority.

They have uncovered dozens of building stones of various
sizes, different paths and tools.

A stone tool identified with the Jewish population in the
Second Temple was discovered in the quarry located in Jerusalem.

Eddie Templeton (pictured) found a portion of an Ice Age-
era elephant tusk exposed in a steep embankment while exploring in Madison County, Mississippi. (Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality).

Columbian mammoths (below) were larger than wooly mammoths that roamed the northern regions of North
America, growing up to 15 feet and weighing over 10
tons, according to the MDEQ. (Mississippi Department
of Environmental Quality)
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Archaeologists at George Washington’s Mount Vernon have
discovered dozens of glass jars filled with fruit preserves in
the cellar of the historic Northern Virginia home that "likely
haven’t seen the light of day since before the American
Revolution."

A press release Friday said Twenty-nine of the 35 bottles 
remain intact, and all contain either cherries, gooseberries 
or currants.

Laborers in Central Asia came across the bones of an ancient
mammoth while quarrying on June 2. In a press release,
Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Culture explained that the remains
were found in "the sandy areas of the ancient floodplain of
the Jyrgalang River."

Kyrgyzstan is a country surrounded by Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and China. The discovery was found in the Issyk- 
Kul Region, which borders the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous
Region of China.
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The discovered remains of the mammoth included its jaw
and teeth.