The complete H.L. Hunley was unveiled in South Carolina after a decade of conservation work that has kept most of it hidden from view. In 1864, the Confederate submarine torpedoed the Union warship Housatonic, but then sank, killing its crew of eight. “The submarine was a perfect time capsule of everything inside,” said archaeologist Ben […]

A Swiss court has ordered that a rare silver coin minted in the fifth century B.C. must be confiscated from an unidentified collector. The coin may have been illegally excavated in northern Greece before it was sold at auction in Switzerland. In the Netherlands, archaeologists are excavating the trash pit associated with Westerbork, a Nazi detention […]