Origin of Ancient Jade Tool Baffles Scientists

[Live Science]  The discovery of a 3,300-year-old tool has led researchers to the rediscovery of a "lost" 20th-century manuscript and a "geochemically extraordinary" bit of earth.

Researchers find cancer in ancient Egyptian mummy

[Fox News]  A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment.

Did massive volcanic eruptions cause "Little Ice Age"?

[BBC] The new study, led by Gifford Miller at the University of Colorado at Boulder, US, links back to a series of four explosive volcanic eruptions between about 1250 and 1300 in the tropics, which would have blasted huge clouds of sulphate particles into the upper atmosphere.

World's Greatest Sunken Treasure Discovered off Cape Cod

[Cape Cod Today] Sunk by a U Boat in 1942, it carried 71 tons of platinum worth $3 billion.

Stone Chamber in Massachusetts Remains a Mystery

[Milford Daily News]  Westford archaeologist David Gutbrod started studying the 15-foot structure known as Pearson Stone Chamber in September, and presented a report to the town’s Historical Commission this week.

Will Herod's Tomb be rebuilt out of plastic at the Herodian site?

[Haaretz]   “It’s crazy - Archaeology is not Disneyland,” said one top archaeologist who asked to remain anonymous, “you don’t take an archaeological site and make a joke out of it.”

People were deep sea fishing 42,000 years ago

[Archaeo News] Modern humans were capable of long-distance sea travel 50,000 years ago as they colonised Australia, but evidence of advanced maritime fishing has been rare. Researchers until now have only been able to find evidence of open-ocean fishing up to 12,000 years ago.