Artifacts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were unearthed over the summer at Mt. Visocica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the medieval town of Visoki was located.  Businessman Semir Osmanagic has tried to convince many that the mountain was Europe’s first pyramid.

James Barrett, deputy director of Cambridge University’s McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, has suggested that the search for eligible women led to the Viking Age. “We need indeed to seek for an individual, social motivation behind the fact that a large number of young men chose to set out on extremely risky voyages in hopes of acquiring wealth and esteem in foreign lands,” agreed Soren Sindbaek of the University of Aarhus in Denmark.  

As many as 10,000 people may have lived at the site known as ancient Troy, according to Ernst Pernicka of the University of Tubingen.  

An amulet bearing Christian symbols that was uncovered by archaeologists in a fourth-century Roman grave in England in 1990 has been shown be a fake. Some think that the silver cross was planted by protesters who wanted to protect the site from development.  

Analysis of blood stains on Clovis points suggests that Paleoindians ate more rabbits than large game animals.  

The Associated Foreign Press has picked up the story on the discovery of Neolithic human skeletons in Malaysia.  

A long-forgotten piece of music written by Mozart was found in the archives of a library in western France.  

Visit some of the 2,000 pictographs at Hueco Tanks State Historic Site in Texas with The New York Times.  

The International Scientific Advisory Committee will meet next month in Alexandria to discuss plans for Egypt’s first offshore underwater museum.  

Hurricane Ike revealed a Civil War schooner that ran aground while trying to enter Mobile Bay, Alabama. “They need to get this thing inside before it falls apart or another storm comes along and sends it through those houses there like a bowling ball,” said archaeologist Glenn Forest.

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