Indiana Museum Finds Lost Picasso

[Huffington Post]  Considered lost for 50 years, Pablo Picasso's "Seated Woman with Red Hat," has finally been discovered at The Evansville Museum of History & Science... in storage.

17th century shipwreck to be freeze-dried, rebuilt

[CBS]   More than three centuries ago, a French explorer's ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico, taking with it France's hopes of colonizing a vast piece of the New World — modern-day Texas. Like La Salle in 1685, researchers at Texas A&M University are in uncharted waters as they try to reconstruct his vessel with a gigantic freeze-dryer, the first undertaking of its size.

Jefferson may not have been first to say "United States of America"

[Daily Mail]   The National Archives cite the first known use of the 'formal term United States of America' as being the Declaration of Independence in June 1776, which would recognise Jefferson as the originator. But historians have uncovered an example of the phrase published in The Virginia Gazette three months earlier.

Babe Ruth footage unearthed

[Huntington Beach Independent]  "There are so few moving images of Babe Ruth that even Major League Baseball's monstrous archive contains less than an hour's worth."  Less than one hour of film exists of Ruth — who died Aug. 16, 1948 — that we know about.

Was Ancient Egypt Wiped Out by a Mega-Drought?

[The Epoch Times]  Analysis of deep sediments around the Nile River in Egypt has shown a massive drought 4,200 years ago contributed to the end of Egypt’s pyramid-building era, according to a new U.S. study.

York’s secret underground passages unearthed

[Yorkshire Post]  IT IS a site that has been at the heart of York’s ruling elite since the Roman era, but the secrets of the past have remained hidden away beneath the ground.

Solved: the 17 year mystery of the ship under the floorboards

[Current Archaeology]  In 1995 archaeologists made a surprising discovery beneath the floorboards of the Georgian wheelwright’s workshop at Chatham Historic Dockyard – the remains of an 18th-century flagship. Now after almost two decades of research, the mystery vessel has been named as the Namur, a second-rate ship of the line that played a key role in the battle that eliminated the threat of French invasion and left Britain ruling the waves.

Canadian family discovers 'Superstar' reptile fossil

[Global News]  "A new window into our ancient world has just opened," says Deborah Skilliter, Nova Scotia Museum's curator of geology.  Skilliter says she was "jumping up and down" in her chair when Peter Keating sent in photos of the fossils.

Discovered! Captain Scott's ship Terra Nova reveals itself in north Atlantic

[Daily Record]  THE REMAINS of the legendary ship Captain Robert Scott used to take him to the South Pole has been discovered 100 years after his ill-fated adventure. The wreck of the SS Terra Nova, which was built in Dundee, was found 1000 feet beneath the sea off the coast of Greenland, where she has lain for nearly 70 years.

Drought brings 19th century Missouri River shipwreck to surface

[Digital Journal]   A steamboat that was lost on the Missouri River in the latter part of the 19th century has resurfaced due to the severe drought conditions that have been plaguing the region. For 128 years the boat was hidden beneath the waters of the Missouri River

Biblical Samson Tale May Be Depicted on Ancient Seal

[Live Science]  An ancient seal slightly smaller than a penny apparently depicts a man fighting a lion, which archaeologists believe could be an early reference to the Biblical tale of Samson.

Lost Egyptian pyramids found by Google Earth

[Global Post]  A Google Earth satellite imagery survey may have found two pyramid complexes in Egypt, Discovery News reported.

Tonga Shipwreck Discovered, Believed To Be Pirate Treasure Ship

[Gadling]  A recent discovery made by divers in Tonga could hold a missing puzzle piece to an age-old mystery. A local diver in the Ha'apai group of islands last month found wreckage believed to be a pirate vessel containing treasure that sank in 1806.