More than 350 sets of human remains have been exhumed from a nineteenth-century Roman Catholic cemetery in La Salle, Illinois, by volunteers. It had been thought that most of the cemetery had been moved in the early twentieth century.

A Russian-piloted submersible scanner that combines ultrasound and video imagery uncovered a shipwreck in Lake Geneva. Researchers believe the 100-foot barge dates to the turn of the twentieth century and might have been used to transport materials from a quarry across the lake.

Human remains and tool-making debris have been unearthed at a construction site in Santa Cruz, California. The development is being monitored by an archaeologist and a representative of the Ohlone descendants.

Three cloister walls of a 700-year-old abbey have been found at the Abbey Hotel in Conwy, Wales. The original abbey was destroyed in the sixteenth century during the reign of Henry VIII.

Eleanor Casella of the University of Manchester has found textile manufacturing paraphernalia at a prison nursery site in Tasmania. She says the artifacts prove that women prisoners had contact with their babies, despite strict rules against it. “That was a very direct and never documented subversion of the formal British penal regulations that governed this penal colony,” she added.

Off the coast of Sweden, divers discovered the wreck of a ship suspected to be the Mars, the flagship of Swedish King Erik XIV’s fleet. The warship sank in 1564 and bore more than 100 cannons and a crew of 800. On one of the wreck’s cannons was a stack of corn, the seal of the Swedish royal family, which further suggest this is, in fact, the Mars.

More than 40 medieval tombs have been uncovered at Kaliadra, on the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea.

Traces of  Toronto’s nineteenth-century industrial past will be destroyed to make way for twenty-first-century waterfront condos.

Erosion is eating away at Samuel de Champlain’s 1604 settlement site on St. Croix Island, which is located on the border between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada. “Things wash up and you’re not really sure if it’s related to the island. It could have come down from the St. Croix River, who knows where? We won’t be able to tell yet,” said archaeologist Bert Ho.

National Geographic Daily News has photographs of the Mary Celestia, a paddle wheel steamer that ran Civil War blockades until it sank off the coast of Bermuda in 1864.