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Like B1089g, but new date (2020). Courtesy of Alex Zlotin....

Like B108Cd, but new signatures (Tolli/Angue). Courtesy of Tomasz Jazwinski. ...

Like B120Dj, but new date (2022). Courtesy of Tomasz Jazwinski. ...

Like B121Du, but new date (2022). Courtesy of Tomasz Jazwinski....

Like B211b, but new signature (Qasim Ibrahim), and new date (2006.07.01/AH1427)....

B1097 (PNL): 50 piso (pesos) (US$0.95) Red. Front: Filipino text; First National Assembly in 1907; Sergio Osmeña; US General Douglas MacArthur during Leyte Landing in 1944; seal of Philippine president; Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas seal. Back: English and Filipino text; map; maliputo fish (Caranx ignobilis); Taal Lake; Batangas...

Like B715e, but new date (25 JUN. 2022). Courtesy of Alex Zlotin....

Like B300a, but new signatures (Salehabadi/Khandozi).Courtesy of Yavar Parhizi....

In August 2008, the central bank issued new “cheques,” which—due to political, financial, and social reasons—it claims are not banknotes even though they circulate like legal tender and do not require endorsement. They were introduced to replace the array of high-denomination promissory notes which private banks had been issuing...

Like B301c, but new signatures (Farzin/Khandozi). Courtesy of Yavar Parhizi....

CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a team of Egyptian and German researchers has removed layers of soot and dirt from the ceiling of Luxor’s Temple of Esna to reveal images of the 12 Babylonian zodiac signs; the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars; deities; animals; and depictions of constellations known as...

FENYANG CITY, CHINA—Xinhua reports that traces of the foundations of two houses have been uncovered in northern China’s Shanxi Province. The houses, situated partly underground, have been attributed to the Yangshao culture, and dated to some 5,500 years ago. The smaller house, which shows signs of burning, covered about 320...

BEIJING, CHINA—According to a statement released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fu Qiaomei of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) and her colleagues have sequenced the genomes of 89 people whose remains were recovered from 29 archaeological sites on the Tibetan Plateau. The study suggests that all...

PARIS, FRANCE—The masonry of Notre Dame Cathedral is supported with 20-inch-long iron staples, according to a Live Science report. Construction of the cathedral began in the twelfth century and continued for 300 years. “This is the first building of its kind in which we see this,” said Maxime L’Héritier of...

LA FEBRÓ, SPAIN—According to an El País report, more than 100 engravings were found by a group of cave explorers on a 26-foot-long panel in Cova de la Vila, an underground cave near northeastern Spain’s Mediterranean coastline. The oval room was explored in the 1940s, but its location had been...

MILTON KEYNES, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that an ancient mosaic was uncovered in southeastern England during an investigation ahead of a construction project near the Roman settlement site at Olney. The red, white, and blue tiles are thought to have been part of a villa and bathhouse. Much of what may...

CHIAPAS, MEXICO—According to a statement released by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), osteoarchaeologist Luis Núñez Enríquez and physical anthropologists Miriam Camacho Martínez and Lucía López Mejía have completed the analysis of “Lady SAS,” a set of human skeletal remains discovered in a workshop in the Maya city...

JAJPUR, INDIA—The Times of India reports that a temple complex dated to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has been discovered at a four-acre site located in eastern India, at the base of a small hill near the village of Purushottampur Sasana. Temple foundations, large stone blocks, sculptures, and carved stone...

PERTH, AUSTRALIA—According to a statement released by the Public Library of Science, Melissa Kennedy of the University of Western Australia and her colleagues have excavated a mustatil, one of 1,600 low-walled Neolithic structures found in northwestern Saudi Arabia. Within this 450-foot-long rectangle, the researchers found some 260 fragments of animal skulls...

LIMA, PERU—According to a Live Science report, two 1,400-year-old paintings discovered this past summer in coastal Peru at the Moche site of Pañamarca contain images that may reflect artists’ experimentation with depicting movement. The murals were both placed on a pillar in a heavily painted hall where murals were first...

CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a team of Egyptian and German researchers has removed layers of soot and dirt from the ceiling of Luxor’s Temple of Esna to reveal images of the 12 Babylonian zodiac signs; the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars; deities; animals; and depictions of constellations known as...

FENYANG CITY, CHINA—Xinhua reports that traces of the foundations of two houses have been uncovered in northern China’s Shanxi Province. The houses, situated partly underground, have been attributed to the Yangshao culture, and dated to some 5,500 years ago. The smaller house, which shows signs of burning, covered about 320...

BEIJING, CHINA—According to a statement released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fu Qiaomei of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) and her colleagues have sequenced the genomes of 89 people whose remains were recovered from 29 archaeological sites on the Tibetan Plateau. The study suggests that all...

PARIS, FRANCE—The masonry of Notre Dame Cathedral is supported with 20-inch-long iron staples, according to a Live Science report. Construction of the cathedral began in the twelfth century and continued for 300 years. “This is the first building of its kind in which we see this,” said Maxime L’Héritier of...

LA FEBRÓ, SPAIN—According to an El País report, more than 100 engravings were found by a group of cave explorers on a 26-foot-long panel in Cova de la Vila, an underground cave near northeastern Spain’s Mediterranean coastline. The oval room was explored in the 1940s, but its location had been...

MILTON KEYNES, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that an ancient mosaic was uncovered in southeastern England during an investigation ahead of a construction project near the Roman settlement site at Olney. The red, white, and blue tiles are thought to have been part of a villa and bathhouse. Much of what may...

CHIAPAS, MEXICO—According to a statement released by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), osteoarchaeologist Luis Núñez Enríquez and physical anthropologists Miriam Camacho Martínez and Lucía López Mejía have completed the analysis of “Lady SAS,” a set of human skeletal remains discovered in a workshop in the Maya city...

JAJPUR, INDIA—The Times of India reports that a temple complex dated to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has been discovered at a four-acre site located in eastern India, at the base of a small hill near the village of Purushottampur Sasana. Temple foundations, large stone blocks, sculptures, and carved stone...

PERTH, AUSTRALIA—According to a statement released by the Public Library of Science, Melissa Kennedy of the University of Western Australia and her colleagues have excavated a mustatil, one of 1,600 low-walled Neolithic structures found in northwestern Saudi Arabia. Within this 450-foot-long rectangle, the researchers found some 260 fragments of animal skulls...

LIMA, PERU—According to a Live Science report, two 1,400-year-old paintings discovered this past summer in coastal Peru at the Moche site of Pañamarca contain images that may reflect artists’ experimentation with depicting movement. The murals were both placed on a pillar in a heavily painted hall where murals were first...