The wreck of a German submarine dating to World War I has been discovered by the Dutch navy. It will be designated a war grave. 

Global Heritage Fund has launched a new monitoring system for tracking endangered cultural heritage sites in developing countries. Professional site monitors, experts, locals, and travelers are able to report threats. 

Pottery, leather shoes, and timber beams from a medieval mill have been uncovered in Dublin, Ireland. 

Prompted by the release of a new movie entitled The Eagle, archaeologist Miles Russell of Bournemouth University reviews what is known (and not known) about the disappearance of the Ninth Legion in Roman Britain during the second century A.D. 

A hearing is being conducted in Honolulu for a lawsuit that seeks to stop a $5.5 billion rail project because its fourth phase could endanger ancient Hawaiian burials. David Kimo Frankel, an attorney for the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, said that an archaeological survey of the entire project area should have been completed before the project was approved. 

A list of artifacts missing from the Cairo Museum has been released by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. 

Researchers from the Netherlands experimented with x-ray equipment dating to 1895. “Our experience with this machine, which had a buzzing interruptor, crackling lightning within a spark gap, and a greenish light flashing in a tube, which spread the smell of ozone and which revealed internal structures in the human body was, even today, little less than magical,” they wrote in Radiology.

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