The legs of a young woman from the Iron Age have been recovered from a bog in Ireland’s County Laois.

An Iron Age burial cist and pottery have been uncovered at a construction site on Scotland’s Isle of Skye.

A mass grave of young men has been found in Oxford, England. The 35 skeletons bear wound marks and some have fractured or crushed skulls. The men may have been Danes who were killed during the St Brice’s Day Massacre, ordered by King Ethelred in 1002 A.D.

Five Thracian tombs untouched by looters have been found in northeastern Bulgaria.

Teens, volunteers, and shipwrights are working together in Bath, Maine, to build a replica of The Virginia, a seventeenth century pinnace thought to have been the first ship constructed by English colonists in North America.

Twenty “gladiators” have been arrested in Rome for intimidating and attacking others who try to break into the business.

A Colorado couple has been sentenced in Utah after their 2009 arrest in the federal artifacts sting.

Two sculptures that could represent Aphrodite and a 1,600-year-old mosaic have been unearthed in southwestern Turkey.

A team of Italian archaeologists excavating medieval ships in Japan has found evidence that supports the idea that Marco Polo never traveled beyond the Black Sea. They think the Venetian heard stories of the East from Persian merchants.

Evidence of the earliest-known use of sails in the Baltic region has been found during the excavation of a ship buried with 35 warriors and nobles on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. The ship, which dates to 750 A.D., had a keel and irregular rows of strong rivets.

Scientists have used fossilized snail shells to build a three-million-year-long timeline for Britain.