A 1,500-year-old necklace has been discovered in a cave in Ireland’s Burren National Park. “The necklace is the largest Viking necklace to have been found in Ireland. Normally, Viking necklaces that have been found have five to six glass beads, but this has 71 glass beads covered with gold foil,” said archaeologist Marion Dowd, who is leading the excavation.

Four Roman sculptures have been withdrawn from an auction, after soil traces on the objects suggested they had been excavated during illegal digs. The style of the sculptures indicates that they may have come from Syria or northern Greece.  

An unnamed man has handed over 13 clay tablets estimated to be 4,000 years old to archaeologists in Iraq. The tablets are inscribed and are thought to have come from Ur.  

The remains of a wooden ship rescued from the beaches of North Carolina may be older than previously thought. “We are not seeing any artifact from the 1690s, but instead, more like the 1640s,” said Richard Lawrence, deputy state archaeologist in the underwater archaeology branch.  

Here’s a short history of the search for Noah’s Ark.  

Volunteers from the U.S. military community living in Germany are assisting archaeologists at a Roman site slated to become U.S. Army housing.  

Check out what researchers from Kenya and the University of Pennsylvania are doing at the Laikipia Archaeological Project.  

Crusts of burned toast estimated to be at least 130 years old have been unearthed from a post office site in Wisconsin. Archaeologists think the ruined breakfast was thrown back into the fire, where it was covered with ashes and preserved.

An Iron Age town and site of early Roman military occupation in Berkshire, England, may have been destroyed by Queen Boudicca. “The settlement is completely wiped out somewhere between 60 AD and 80 AD, and it starts again in 70 AD,” said Michael Fulford of the University of Reading.

Rabbits are digging up archaeological sites on the tiny Hebridean Island of Canna. Four years ago, the islanders paid to have rats removed from the island, but now the rabbit population is out of control. “The only things that are happy are the sea eagles. They have been having a real feast but obviously nowhere near keeping up with the rabbit population,” said resident Winnie Mackinnon. 

This article on artifacts found beneath the ice in Canada’s Northwest Territories includes a photograph of a 340-year-old bow.  

Researchers have observed chimpanzees reacting to the deaths of other chimps in a similar way that humans react to the deaths of other humans. “Science has provided strong evidence that the boundaries between us and other species are nowhere near to being clearly defined as many people used to think,” said James Anderson of Stirling University. 

A team of Chinese and Turkish evangelical Christian explorers claims to have discovered Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat. “It’s not 100 percent that it is Noah’s Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it,” said a filmmaker and a member of the team, Noah’s Ark Ministries International.