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.

Closest moon in 1400 years may have sunk Titanic

[Daily Mail]  A once-in-a-lifetime lunar event created an super-high tide on January 12, 1912 - setting loose a deadly fleet of icebergs, three months before Titanic sank on April 14, 1912 with the loss of approximately 1,500 lives.

Huge asteroid hit earth 13,000 years ago

[Popular Science]  About 13,000 years ago, a chunk of a comet or asteroid hurtled into the atmosphere at a shallow angle, superheating the atmosphere around it as it careened toward the surface. The air grew hot enough to ignite plant material and melt rock below the object’s flight path.

Ancient Road Paved with Marble unearthed in Greece

[iol] Other finds range from hundreds of graves and tombs spanning an 800-year period from the fourth century BC, marble sarcophagi, stone tombs and more than 2,500 square meters of ancient buildings.

Over 2000 ancient Buddha statues discovered in China

[The Economic Times]  The 2,895 Buddha statues and fragments dating back to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi period (534-577) were found in the historic site of Yecheng, Linzhang county.

Neanderthals were ancient mariners

[New Scientist]  IT LOOKS like Neanderthals may have beaten modern humans to the seas. Growing evidence suggests our extinct cousins criss-crossed the Mediterranean in boats from 100,000 years ago.

Baghdad's Ice Age 1000 Years Ago

[Daily Mail]  It snowed three times between 908 and 1007 - but not again until 2008.

Remains of Christ's Disciples?

[The Windsor Star]  An amateur archeologist claimed Tuesday to have identified what could be the remains of some of Christ's disciples in a first century burial chamber beneath a block of flats in Jerusalem.

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New Mozart Piece Discovered

[The New Age]  It is believed that Mozart composed the piece in 1756, just before he embarked on a three-year trip to Italy at the age of 13.

China’s lost ‘Atlantis’ unearthed

[Outcome Magazine]  “Sizhou is perhaps better preserved than Italy’s ancient city of Pompeii, which was buried in volcanic ash.”

Ancient Romans in Arizona?

[Borderzine] Engraved in Latin on a cross found in the Arizona desert c.1922 is the tale that after landing on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Romans marched northwest until they arrived at a desert area near present day Tucson.

Extinct camel fossils unearthed in Panama

[Science News]  "The ancestors of llamas originated in North America and then when the land bridge formed about 4 to 5 million years ago, they dispersed into South America and evolved into the llama, alpaca, guanaco and vicuna.

Ancient Iceman had Lyme Disease 5300 years ago

[ABC News] Researchers from Europe and the U.S. have sequenced his genome and found he suffered many of the same ailments people do today. They reported he was genetically predisposed to heart disease, can lay claim to having had the earliest documented case of Lyme disease, and was lactose intolerant.

Giant vines climbed giant trees in NY 380 million years ago

[Christian Science Monitor] One of the earliest forests in the world was home to towering palmlike trees and woody plants that crept along the ground like vines, a new fossil find reveals.