23 JANVIER 2019: Kfar Ruppin - Tel Akko - Taposiris Magna - Pucare de Tilcar - Xinjiang
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ISRAEL - 
Kfar Ruppin / Tel Akko - While the family searched for mushrooms following a January rain in the area of Kfar Ruppin, archaeologist Ayelet Goldberg-Keidar’s two girls, Hadas and Maya, discovered a small 2,800-year-old horse-shaped clay figurine. “I immediately recognized it was an ancient figurine from the Iron Age – the period of the Kingdom of Israel,” said Kedar-Goldberg in a IAA press release. Coincidentally, a second horse statue — this one “only” 2,200 years old — was also recently discovered in a second location, near the seaside site of Tel Akko. According to the IAA, this horse, which is depicted with a harness and mane, dates to the Hellenistic period (3rd to 2nd centuries BCE).
VIDEO = https://www.timesofisrael.com/driving-rain-uncovers-2-rare-horse-statues-in-north-of-israel/
EGYPTE - Taposiris Magna -Over the past two weeks, numerous media reports have claimed that a team led by archaeologist Zahi Hawass is on the verge of discovering the tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII at a site in Egypt called "Taposiris Magna.",But alas, the "pair so famous" has yet to be discovered. Hawass, Egypt's former minister of antiquities, told Live Science that the news reports are false. "This is completely false information; [there is] nothing found at all about the tomb," Hawass told Live Science. Many of the media reports claim that during a recent lecture in Palermo, Italy, Hawass said that the tomb was about to be found. At that lecture, Hawass told Live Science, he discussed work at Taposiris Magna, which is being carried out by a team led by Kathleen Martinez, an archaeologist who believes that the tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII could be located at the site. While he discussed Martinez's idea, he never said that archaeologists are close to finding the tomb.
https://www.livescience.com/64556-tomb-of-antony-and-cleopatra.html
ARGENTINE – 
Pucare de Tilcara - Archaeologists have created a computer-generated image of what a wealthy Inca woman probably looked like after discovering her remains. The scientist managed to reconstruct almost her entire skeleton after she was discovered at Pucare de Tilcara fortification on a hill outside the town of Tilcara in northern Argentina.nResearchers from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Conicet) believe the Inca woman had “outstanding social prestige” in the community towards the end of the Inca Empire in the 16th century.nAccording to Dr Clarisa Otero, the remains were found 30 centimetres below the surface with ceramic objects, jewellery, animal bones and metal plates placed around her.She said: “This discovery reinforced the ideas we have about pre-Hispanic funerary practices and in turn gives us new and valuable information.n"The absence of a coffin to contain the corpse and the presence of fauna shows that the woman was partially or completely exposed. "This implies that once the body was buried in the courtyard, it was not moved." She added: “Although we know that her first years of life did not take place at the site, due to the types of offerings found at her grave, her role in the community would have been important.”Experts believe that the woman came from an elite group from the region of Tahuantinsuyo and was in the area of Tilcara when the Spanish arrived.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/face-wealthy-inca-woman-recreated-13891645
CHINE - Xinjiang - Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region excavated 570 tombs and unearthed 5,500 cultural relics in 2018, authorities said Tuesday. The excavated tombs cover a period from the Bronze Age and early Iron Age to around the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). The relics unearthed are mainly pottery, stoneware, metal works and animal bones, officials said at an annual meeting on archaeological findings in the region. Last year, 24 archaeological excavation projects were carried out in Xinjiang, excavating an area of 15,550 square meters.