Cherokee tribe expels slave descendants

[Reuters]  The nation's second-largest Indian tribe formally booted from membership thousands of descendants of black slaves who were brought to Oklahoma more than 170 years ago by Native American owners.  More...

King Arthur's round table may have been found by archaeologists in Scotland

[The Telegraph, UK]   The King's Knot, a geometrical earthwork in the former royal gardens below Stirling Castle, has been shrouded in mystery for hundreds of years. More...

Shipwreck Yields over 500,000 Silver and Gold Coins

[Heritage Daily]   Odyssey Marine Exploration who is involved in deep-ocean shipwreck exploration announced today that it has completed the preliminary excavation of a Colonial period shipwreck site code-named “Black Swan” in an undisclosed location in the Atlantic Ocean.  More...

Saudi Arabia discovers 9,000 year-old civilization

[Reuters]  The Maqar Civilization is a very advanced civilization of the Neolithic period.  More

Oldest U.S. Survivor of Bataan March Dies at 105

[History.com] The godson of  Buffalo Bill Cody and a cousin of Henry Fonda, he was told he would never make it to age 50.  More...

Ancient Egyptians used 'hair gel'

[Nature News]  Egyptians used the product to ensure that their style stayed in place in both life and death.  More...

33,000-year-old fossil suggests dogs arose in multiple places

[National Geographic] The fossilized remains of a canine found in the 1970s in southern Siberia's Altay Mountains is the earliest well-preserved pet dog.  More...

Northern Humans Had Bigger Brains, to Cope With the Low Light Levels, Study Finds

[Science Daily]  Scientists have found that people living in countries with dull, grey, cloudy skies and long winters have evolved bigger eyes and brains so they can visually process what they see.  More...

Oldest Fossils On Earth Discovered

[Science Daily]  Found in Australia by a team from the University of Western Australia and Oxford University, the microscopic fossils show convincing evidence for cells and bacteria living in an oxygen-free world over 3.4 billion years ago.  More...

13,000 year old petroglyphs of mammoths found in Utah

[Archaeo News]  Until now, no unambiguously ancient rock art imagery of Ice Age megafauna has been found in North America.  More...