Major New Mummy discovery reveals ancient secrets

[Swiss info]  A Swiss team has uncovered a mummy in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings – the first of its kind since the exhumation of Tutankhamen in 1922.

Biblical Jonah's Tomb Discovered?

[Fox News]  The researchers behind a 2007 documentary detailing “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” have uncovered evidence that a first-century Israeli tomb once belonged to the Biblical prophet Jonah, who was famously swallowed whole by a whale in the Book of Jonah.

5' Tall Ancient Penguin Weighed 130 Pounds

[Discovery] The tallest and heaviest ever known penguin stood nearly 5 feet tall and tipped the scales at around 130 pounds, according to a 27-million-year-old fossil found in New Zealand.

New evidence suggests Stone Age hunters from Europe discovered America

[UK Independent]  New archaeological evidence suggests that America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe – 10,000 years before the Siberian-originating ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World.

Rare Hitler Painting Collection Unearthed at Czech Monastery

[International Business Times]  The Telegraph reported that as the war neared its end, Hitler apparently ordered the paintings, which he had either bought or seized, to be hidden in a monastery in southern Bohemia.

Ancient Rock Carving Believed to Be Among World's Oldest

[Chichago Tribune] Scientists in Brazil announced Tuesday they've discovered rock engravings that could be up to 12,000 years old, meaning people may have settled the Americas up to 4,000 years earlier than previously thought.

300-million-year-old 'Chinese Pompeii' found buried under volcanic ash

[Christian Science Monitor] This preserved forest has given researchers the unusual opportunity to examine an ecosystem essentially frozen in place by a natural disaster, giving them a detailed look at ancient plant communities and a glimpse at the ancient climate.

Archaeologists discover Jordan’s earliest buildings

[Cambridge]  Some of the earliest evidence of prehistoric architecture has been discovered in the Jordanian desert, providing archaeologists with a new perspective on how humans lived 20,000 years ago.

Amazing Ice Age Discoveries

[International Business Times]  Russian scientists recently grew plants from fruits stored by squirrels, in Siberian permafrost conditions, more than 30,000 years ago.

What caused collapse of Mayan civilization?

[BBC] The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say.

Out of Africa? Data fail to support language origin in Africa

[Physorg]  Last year, a report claiming to support the idea that the origin of language can be traced to West Africa appeared in Science. The article caused quite a stir. Now linguist Michael Cysouw from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich has challenged its conclusions, in a commentary just published in Science.

Stunning face hidden for thousands of years

[Daily Mail] Encased in soil, an extraordinarily delicate face emerges into the sun for the first time in thousands of years.The wooden sarcophagus was unearthed by archaeologists at the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa in Aswan, Egypt.

Sardinia's lost warriors rise from the dust

[The Independent]  An elite force of  prehistoric warriors – carved from solid rock in the western Mediterranean 2700 years ago – is rising from oblivion.

Major Aztec Discovery in Mexico

[Fox News] A total of 23 pre-Columbian stone plaques dating back approximately 550 years, with carvings illustrating such Aztec myths as the birth of the god of war Huitzilopochtli, were discovered by archaeologists in front of the Great Temple of Tinochtitlan in downtown Mexico City.

Secret Nazi Ice Bunker in Antarctica?

[Daily Mail]  According to German naval archives, months after the Nazis surrendered to the Allies in April 1945, a U-530 submarine arrived at the South Pole from the Port of Kiel. The crew are rumoured to have constructed a still undiscovered ice cave ‘and supposedly stored several boxes of relics from the Third Reich, including Hitler's secret files’.A later claim was that a U-977 submarine delivered remains of Hitler and Eva Braun to Antarctica in the hope they could be cloned from their DNA.

Last World War I Veteran Dies at 110

[Business Insider]  "In a way, that the last veteran should be a lady and someone who served on the home front is something that reminds me that warfare is not confined to the trenches," noted the director-general of the RAF Museum. The last known WWI combat veteran, Claude Choules, died last year, also at age 110.

High school student finds 4000 year old artifact in Connecticut

[Archaeo News] This type of ancient artifact is known as a Burwell projectile point and was probably used as the tip of a spear.

Earliest Copy of Mona Lisa Found

[Discovery] The discovery suggests the picture was being produced at the same time as Leonardo was painting his masterpiece.

140 year old shipreck washes ashore in Lake Michigan

[Mlive] A substantial hull piece that shipwreck experts believe comes from the schooner Jennie and Annie, which sunk in the Manitou Passage in 1872, has washed up on a remote stretch of Lake Michigan.

First Pictures of First Sub to Sink a Ship:in 1864

[National Geographic] Shown in a South Carolina conservation facility, the Hunley sank the U.S.S. Housatonic off Charleston in 1864. Within minutes the sub itself sank too-killing its eight-man crew and creating an enduring mystery.