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Pat Murphy for Troy Media • The historical personage after whom the Charlemagne Prize is named died in 814, but his reputation has persisted down the centuries

Extraordinary finds are routine business at the necropolis of Meir, but recent excavations have unearthed an unusual array of specimens.

Central Europe pops up on the front pages of newspapers every few decades. Whether it is because of Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife dying at the hands of a Bosnian Serb in 1914, the consequences of the 1938 Munich agreement surrendering Czech lands to Hitler, the drawing of the Iron Curtain after World War II by the Soviet tyranny, the annus mirabilis of 1989 bringing liberty to oppressed nations, or, now, the violent westward push by Russia in Ukraine—Central Europe is the place where seemingly circumscribed forces ignite larger events, good or bad.

Archaeologists have found ancient artifacts at the Meir cemetery in Egypt, revealing well-preserved structures, burials, skeletons, and fascinating funerary goods.

Ten mummified crocodiles, once offered as a sacrifice to Sobek the crocodile-headed god, have been put under the microscope by a team of archaeologists.