Thousands of Mesolithic flint tools and flakes have been unearthed in Leicestershire, England. Charcoal, burned animal bones, postholes, and arcs of stones that may show the positions of dwellings were also found.

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team has recently excavated a mass grave outside a cemetery in Buenos Aires. At least 13,000 Argentinians “disappeared” between 1976 and 1983, when the country was ruled by military dictators. “You are dealing with violence, with human rights, with relatives that lost their loved ones. In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need this job, but we are proud of what we do,” said team member Mariana Segura.  

Scientists are learning more about early Hawaiian agriculture, on both wet land and dry, using computer modeling techniques and Google Earth. Hawaiian farming supported as many as one million people before European contact.  

A cemetery dating between 300 and 800 A.D. was discovered in Costa Rica. Archaeologists uncovered 59 ceramic artifacts buried in three rock-covered mounds.  

Water works from the time of Peter the Great have been unearthed in Moscow’s Pushkinskaya Square.  

How old is the Cerne Abbas Giant? Rob Wilson-North, historic environment manager for England’s Exmoor National Park Authority, thinks the chalk-outline figure may be 100 years older than previously thought.   

Rogue Classicism examines the claim that Cambyses’ lost army, described by Herodotus, has been found in the Egyptian desert.

 Two men fled the scene as sheriff’s deputies approached an ancient graveyard near Ohio’s Little Miami River. The men had been digging at the site.

The skeletal remains of 12 Maoris were repatriated to New Zealand from the National Museum of Wales after a special ceremony. The bones have been in boxes at the museum since the 1920s.  

Graduate students will search the coastline of the island of Tutuila in American Samoa for tsunami damage to archaeological sites.  

An artificial pond dating to the eighth or ninth century has been uncovered in an ornamental garden at Taga Castle, in northeastern Japan.  

Here’s more on the story of the discovery of the CSS Appomattox in North Carolina’s Pasquotank River.  

Archaeologists are assisting with the relocation of an African-American cemetery in Clayton County, Georgia. The cemetery had been abandoned and is being moved to make way for an airport.  

A man in Charleston, West Virginia, has consulted archaeologists to try to figure out who built the rock cairns on his property. “It took a lot of work and a lot of time to build them. I just don’t see them being moved and stacked for agriculture,” said Roger Wise, supervising archaeologist for the state Division of Highways.  

Britain’s Great Drain, which carries overflow from the Roman Baths, will be opened up for the first time in 2,000 years. An extension added to the ancient drain is clogged and poses a flood risk.  

Three skulls were discovered in an Inca vessel at an ancient ceremonial center north of Cuzco, Peru. Washington Camacho, director of the Sacsayhuaman Archaeological Park, thinks the heads may have belonged to chiefs or leaders of enemies of the Incas.  

Archaeologists are debating who or what deforested Rapa Nui, a.k.a. Easter Island. Did people destroy the last tree, or did stowaway rats eat all of the palm tree nuts?  

Special cutting tools will be used to recover two crates of Scotch whisky buried under a hut in the Antarctic. The crates were left by explorer Ernest Shackleton during his early twentieth-century attempt to reach the South Pole.  

Italian archaeologists present their case that the lost Persian army of Cambyses II has been found in this video at Discovery News.