An intact Viking boat burial of a high-ranking warrior has been discovered in Scotland’s west Highlands. He had been buried with an ax, a sword with a decorated hilt, a spear, and a bronze ring pin.

A fragment of pottery bearing an image of a woman in childbirth has been unearthed at the Etruscan site of Poggio Colla in Italy’s Mugello Valley. Because deposits of weaving tools and gold jewelry have also been found, the 2,700-year-old site is thought to have been sacred to a female patron divinity.

Teams of archaeologists are using high-tech tools to look for a second passage at Newgrange, Ireland’s Neolithic passage tomb.

Receding floodwaters in South Dakota have revealed dozens of ancient bison skulls. Archaeologists will check and see if the site may have been a village or hunting ground.

A second Lapita cemetery has been discovered in Vanuatu.

The construction of a hotel in Hatay has revealed an ancient glass workshop and the largest mosaic ever found in Turkey. “We avoid using any kind of construction machines in order not to damage ancient artifacts on the site,” said the landowner.

Local Turkish officials will reportedly ask the British Museum to return the Lion of Knidos and a statue of Demeter that were removed from Knidos by Sir Charles Newton nearly 150 years ago. “It will be very hard to take them back since they were taken with special permission. But we believe that we will succeed in getting them back by appealing to public opinion,” said the mayor of Datça.

Wrecked and abandoned vessels have been surveyed in North Carolina’s Scuppernong River by students from East Carolina University. They learned how to operate side-scan sonar and magnetometers, and are compiling their results. “This is the first extensive archaeological survey done of the whole river system,” said Nathan Richards, head of the maritime studies program.