In Argentina, two brothers were digging in their backyard in order to build an addition on their house when they unearthed a 1,300-year-old pot. After three more pots turned up, they called in some archaeologists, who found four more.

Subway excavation in Mexico City has revealed the remains of Aztec adults and children, the foundations of homes, and hundreds of artifacts.  

Victims of disease during the siege of York in 1644 have been unearthed just outside the city’s walls. The ten mass graves held a total of 113 skeletons of Oliver Cromwell’s under-supplied supporters.  

Reports from China indicate that 5,000 stone figurines between 2,000 and 5,000 years old have been found at Guizai Mountain, located in Hunan Province. The figurines may have been left at the sacred mountain as religious offerings.  

A tenth ship that may have been scuttled by the British at the end of the Revolutionary War may be sitting at the bottom of the York River. Underwater archaeologists John D. Broadwater and Gordon Watts have been looking for the remains of the British fleet as part of the Department of Historic Resources’ Threatened Sites Program. “We knew divers were down here looting every weekend,” said Broadwater.  

Officials from Georgia’s Magnolia Springs State Park have already stopped a half-dozen relic hunters from digging at Camp Lawton. They were released with a warning, but violators may be prosecuted in the future. “This site is unusually undisturbed. For Civil War sites, this is an amazing thing,” said Rick Kanaski, regional archaeologist and historic preservation officer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  

Underwater archaeologists have returned to Florida’s Little Salt Spring, where 10,000-year-old artifacts have been found 90 feet below the surface. “The anoxic (absence of oxygen) environment at the bottom of the spring does not allow microbes and bacteria to live, so decomposition of organic material deposited there thousands of years ago is greatly reduced. Wooden and other organic tools, as well as animals’ soft tissues and bones, are preserved nearly intact in this unique environment,” explained John Gifford of the University of Miami.  

In Washington State, some kids looking for shells and rocks as part of their day camp projects discovered 18 pieces of hand-made hardware that may have come from an early twentieth-century lumber mill.

A 7,000-year-old wooden oar has been found intact in muddy soil in South Korea. “This is a very rare find, not only in South Korea but also in the world,” said researcher Yoon On-Shik. Fragments of two boats were also uncovered.

Conservators at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory continue to clean the planks of the eighteenth-century ship unearthed at the World Trade Center site in New York City. They have also discovered a coin that had been placed between the keel and the stern post for good luck.  

Archaeologist Jill Eyers says she has found cut marks on bones recovered from a mass burial of infants in Hambleden, England. “If dismembered this could be signs of a ritual activity at this site. This is turning more sinister by the minute,” she added.  

The 4,000-year-old remains of a woman dubbed the “Queen of the Inch” will be re-interred on the Scottish island of Inchmarnock. Her cist, which also contained a necklace and a dagger, was discovered in the 1950s by a farmer plowing a field.  

There’s more information on the giant horned turtle bones found in Vanuatu. “It is the first time this family of turtles has been shown to have met with humans and there are many turtle bones in the middens,” said palaeontologist Arthur White of the University of New South Wales.  

There’s also more on the discovery of Camp Lawton, where more than 10,000 Union troops were imprisoned for six weeks. “What makes Camp Lawton so unique is it’s one of those little frozen moments in time, and you don’t get those very often,” said Dave Crass, Georgia’s state archaeologist.