Archaeologist finds mystery skulls mailed to Brigham Young University are prehistoric

[AP]  The Utah state archaeologist has determined the age of three mystery skulls mailed to Brigham Young University.KSL-TV reports the skulls were determined to be from about 1100 to 1300 A.D.  More...

Story of Ancient Power Revealed in Royal Garden

[Live Science]  A newly discovered 7th century B.C. palace garden near Jerusalem could reveal details about how royals liked to let loose in ancient times.  More...

Ancient house in Pompeii collapses

[AP]  A 2,000-year-old house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was once used by gladiators to train before combat, collapsed Saturday, officials said.  More...

Egypt: Archaeologists unearth 3,400 pharaoh statue

[History News Network]  Egypt's antiquities chief says archaeologists have unearthed the upper half of a red granite statue of a powerful pharaoh who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago.  More...

The Lost Colony may now be found

[Hampton Roads]  What happened to the Lost Colony, a group of 117 Englishmen who settled on a tiny island off the North Carolina coast and then vanished with barely a trace?  More...

New footage of WW1 shows war-torn battlefields

[BBC]   Extraordinary pictures of the aftermath of WW1, which have been hidden away for nearly a century, have been discovered in a vault in Paris.  More...

Atlantic Ocean flow reversed 10,000 years ago, slowing down again

[Ars Technica]  The flow of top- and bottom-level currents in the Atlantic Ocean appear to be slowing down and may be due for a reversal like one that happened 10,000 years ago, according to new data.  More...

Early medieval manuscripts give new view of English life under the Normans

[University of Leicester]  A new study of early medieval manuscripts written in the English language has revealed that the Normans, who conquered England in 1066, were not the destructive force of popular belief, sweeping away everything that had gone before.  More...

Ancient royal garden discovered near Jerusalem

[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]  At theRamat Rachel dig near Jerusalem, archeologists have uncovered an ancient royal garden nourished by an intricate irrigation system.Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Heidelberg University in Germany have been working at Ramat Rachel, which is said to have been built by the Judeans. The newly discovered gardens date back to the 7th century B.C.  More...

New study finds headless skeletons in ancient cemetery were Romans

[Medical Daily]  Eighty headless skeletons unearthed between 2004 and 2005 from an ancient English cemetery in the city of York or the then Roman capital Eboracum holds proof that they all lost their heads far away from home.  More...

Israeli archaeologist dies after fall at King Herod dig

[BBC]  Ehud Netzer, the Israeli archaeologist credited with discovering the tomb of the biblical King Herod, has died after falling during a dig.  More...

Digger finds Neolithic tomb complex

[BBC] Archaeologists on Orkney are investigating what is thought to be a 5,000-year-old tomb complex. A local man stumbled on the site while using a mechanical digger for landscaping.  More...

Secret World War II heroine's file released

[AP]  Buried deep in Eileen Nearne's secret World War II file, released Friday by the National Archives, is the secrecy agreement she signed on September 4, 1942. It was a commitment she honored until her death last month at the age of 89.   More...

New find raises the prospect our forebears came out of Asia

[Irish Times]   OUR ANCIENT forebears arose within Africa, or so the evolutionary story goes. New research findings bring this assumption into question however. Our earliest roots could well have been somewhere in Asia.  More...

Researchers unearth ancient water secrets at royal garden dig

[Sify]   Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient royal garden- which dates back to the 7th century B.C.-at the site of Ramat Rachel near Jerusalem.  More...

UN Org.: Rachel's Tomb is a Mosque

[Israel's National News]  The vote called for Rachel's Tomb and the Tomb of the Patriarchs – the burial site of the other Biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs – to be removed from Israel's National Heritage list.  More...

Ancient asteroid hit New York with tsunamis

[msnbc]  Space rock impact off New Jesey coast may have sent surge of water.  More...

Cornell Archaeologist Makes Neolithic Era Discovery

[The Sun]  Prof. Sturt Manning, classics, and his team of undergraduate and graduate students from Cornell, the University of Toronto and the University of Cyprus, have uncovered new evidence that agricultural settlements had been formed up to half a millennium earlier than previously believed.  More...

8,000 year old boy is Europe's oldest

[Austrian Times]  Scientists have unearthed one of the earliest humans in Europe after discovering an 8,000-year-old skeleton during the building of a motorway in Kroum, Bulgaria.  More...

Armenian archeologists: 5,900-year-old skirt found

[AP]  An Armenian archaeologist says that scientists have discovered a skirt that could be 5,900-year-old. More...