Cartoons of life on the First World War frontline unearthed

[Daily Mail]  A fascinating collection of cartoon paintings of German soldiers on the Western Front has been discovered - and shows a little-known humourous side to the Kaiser's war machine.

Skeleton found near Cambridge evidence of first Christian burial in England

[Physorg]  A British archeological team has unearthed the 1,400-year old remains of a sixteen year old girl buried with a gold and garnet cross on her chest. And because they also found with her, an iron chatelaine (belt hook) and purse, still attached to her leather belt with polished rocks and a knife, they believe she lived during a time when Britain was in the process of moving from paganism to Christianity.

Was Human Evolution Caused by Climate Change?

[Science Daily]  According to a paper published in Science, models of how animal and plant distributions are affected by climate change may also explain aspects of human evolution.

Russia and Korea will attempt to resurrect woolly mammoth

[Popular Science] The plan would work like previous cloning studies that successfully reproduced dogs, a cow, a cat, a pig, a wolf and coyotes. The nuclei of mammoth somatic cells would be implanted into the nuclei of donor elephant eggs, to produce elephant embryos with mammoth DNA. The embryos would then be implanted in elephant wombs.

New ancient Egyptian pharaoh discovered

[Fox News]  A new king has been added to the long list of ancient pharaohs, the Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities, Mohamed Ibrahim, announced this week. The king's name, Senakht-en-Re, emerged from the engraved remains of a limestone door found by a French-Egyptian team‭ ‬in the Temple of Karnak complex on Luxor’s east bank.

 

Fossils show one mammal thrived among the dinosaurs

[MSNBC]  A new study indicates that at least one group of ancient mammals was already expanding 20 million years before the dinosaurs were wiped from the Earth.

Hitler fathered child with French woman

[Fox News]  An English World War II soldier's lost diary supports sensational claims that Adolf Hitler fathered a secret son with a 16-year-old French girl.

Trial fails to end "brother" of Jesus burial mystery

[Reuters]  The authenticity of a burial box purported to have been for the "brother" of Jesus Christ remained shrouded in mystery on Wednesday after a Jerusalem court acquitted an Israeli private collector of charges he forged the artifact.

Possible new human species unearthed in China

[Christian Science Monitor] Scientists in China have found what may be a new species of human. Fossils show a group of people with similarities to and differences from modern humans.

Rare Wooden Statue of Pharaoh Discovered

[Canada.com]  A team of Canadian archeologists has unearthed a rare wooden statue of a pharaoh at a dig site in southern Egypt, and clues suggest the figure may be an important new representation of Hatshepsut - the great female king who enjoyed a long and successful reign about 3,500 years ago.

New Norway Viking settlement discovered

[The Foreigner]  Using a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and magnetometer, surveys have revealed the settlement in Sandefjord in Gokstadhaugen, eastern Norway, has 15 buildings, an 80-metre long street and a port.

Insect-sized robot to try to solve Great Pyramid mystery

[Reuters]  It will gently trek the winding shafts of the pyramid without causing damage to the walls.The two shafts, which rise from a chamber in the pyramid, and their doors have puzzled archaeologists since they were first discovered in 1872.

Lost da Vinci Found?

[Washington Times]  Researchers may have discovered traces of a lost mural by Leonardo da Vinci by poking a probe through cracks in a 16th-century fresco painted on the wall of one of the most famous buildings in Florence.

Life on Mars: Could fossil record be trapped in ancient lake mud?

[Christian Science Monitor]  If life evolved on Mars, deposits of clay and sediment could contain evidence of its existence.

Earliest animal on Earth with skeleton discovered

[Deccan Heraald]  Scientists have unearthed fossils of what they believe is the oldest animal with a skeleton that was shaped like a thimble and lived on the seafloor more than half a billion years ago.

500 new fairy tales discovered in Bavaria

[NY Daily News] These stories were originally collected by the historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth....But due to the vagaries of time, Schönwerth was forgotten, and the Teutonic folk myths he collected were left to gather dust.

Pius XII supported Jewish homeland in Palestine

[CathNews]  Documents unearthed by the Pave the Way Foundation show that Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII) supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine, according to a Zenit report published by Catholic Culture.

Perfectly Preserved 13,000 Year Old Skeleton Found in Yucatan

[The Yucatan Times]  “She is the most ancient and perfectly preserved woman in the world. This is an amazing discovery."

Closing in on Queen of Sheba's Treasure

[IB Times]  An ancient goldmine discovered on a hill on the Gheralta plateau in northern Ethiopia is said to be the treasure trove of Queen of Sheba, the biblical legend who traveled from Ethiopia to Israel to meet the king and showered upon him tons of gold about 3,000 years ago.

New Theory on Mystery of Odysseus' Island Kingdom

[NY Times]  A British businessman, Robert Bittlestone, working in his spare time, thinks he has solved this mystery — and his solution is so ingenious, and fits the geography so well, that it has been embraced by many of the world’s top experts.

New Fossil: Ancient Fish Killing Flying Dinosaur

[Live Science]   An ancient armored fish was fossilized in the act of attacking and drowning a pterosaur in a toxic Jurassic lake 120 million years ago, revealing that the winged reptiles were victims of a wide variety of carnivores, scientists find.

The wreck of the Titanic as never seen before

[Daily Mail]  Expedition team used sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots to create the detailed map.