Iceman Had Bad Teeth

[Discovery News]  The 5,300-year-old mummy suffered from cavities, possibly brought on by a high-carb diet.  More...

Sunken Treasure Found in the Seas Of Sicily

[Discovery News] Italian archaeologists have retrieved a sunken treasure of 3,422 ancient bronze coins in the small Sicilian island of Pantelleria.  More...

Black Death Study Lets Rats off the Hook

[Heritage Daily] "The evidence just isn't there to support it."  More...

Experts Say Butch Cassidy May Have Survived Shootout

[Slate]   The famous Old West outlaw allegedly killed in a Bolivia shootout may have survived quietly into old age.  More...

Early human ancestors were more advanced than first thought and sailed the high seas

[Daily Mail]  Archeologists now believe that man was crossing the Mediterranean Sea from northern Africa at least 130,000 years ago - more than 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.   More...

Mystery Fossils Link Fungi to Ancient Mass Extinction

[Wired News] Of the five mass extinctions in the Earth’s past, one stands above the rest in magnitude: the Permian-Trassic extinction, known as the Great Dying.  More...

Ancient Egypt was destroyed by drought

[The Scotsman] "There were great riots, and anarchy breaking out as a result of it." More...

Is this Captain Henry Morgan's ship hull?

[BBC]  Archaeologists from Texas State University believe they have uncovered a ship found near the site where Welsh Admiral Sir Henry Morgan's ships wrecked in 1671. More...

Egypt's Lost Fleet—It's Been Found

[Discover] The discovery of 
an ancient harbor on 
the Red Sea proves 
ancient Egyptians 
mastered oceangoing technology and 
launched a series of 
ambitious expeditions 
to far-off lands. More...

Ancient City Mysteriously Survived Mideast Civilization Collapse

[Live Science] Why did Tell Qarqur, a site in northwest Syria, grow at a time when cities across the Middle East were being abandoned?  More...

Archaeologists Unearthing Major City-State in Jordan

[Popular Archaeology] Many scholars are suggesting that the textual and archaeological evidence may indeed support the hypothesis that the remains of Tall el Hammam represent the remnants of the ancient city of Sodom. More...

All Non-Africans Part Neanderthal, Genetics Confirm

[Discovery News] If your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal, according to a new study in the July issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution. More...