Your ancient wall painting in a few thousand pieces? No problem, we’ll hook up a laptop, scanner, and a laser rangefinder…

According to this posting from Odyssey Marine Exploration, Peru has filed a “Verified Conditional Claim” in the Black Swan case.

“The greatest mummy movie of all time is still ‘The Mummy’ (1932) starring Boris Karloff,” Bloomberg reviewer raves about the new digitally remastered, two-disc edition.

Here’s a preview of “Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine: the Remarkable Trypilian Culture (5400-2700 B.C.),” an exhibition opening this fall at the Royal Ontario Museum.

A Bronze Age skeleton, as much as 3,200 years old, has been found buried with a pot in chalk a pit grave at Wicken, England.

The 800 Union troops aboard Menemon Sanford, a 237-foot sidewheeler that sank in 1862, all survived but the ship didn’t, leaving students plenty to investigate.

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