Two out of five Japanese subs sunk by the U.S. off the coast off the Hawaiian island of Oahu in 1946 were located earlier this year. “In their time, they were very revolutionary,” said military historian, retired Col. Robert D. Hackett. U.S. technicians studied the subs, which were sunk in order to keep the technology out of the hands of the Soviet Union.   A photograph of one of the subs can be seen at National Geographic News.

A new exhibition at Germany’s National Socialism Documentation Center examines “How the Nazis Stole Christmas.” Judith Breuer and her mother Rita began collecting objects of Christmas propaganda 30 years ago. “Christmas was a provocation for the Nazis – after all, the baby Jesus was a Jewish child,” she told Spiegel Online.  

Three unfinished tombs from the Byzantine era were discovered in a cave in Syria’s Wadi Al-Zahab.  

An Australian farmer claims to have the long-lost skull of outlaw Ned Kelly. “With Kelly having been executed in 1880, there’s a period of about 50 years where we really don’t have a high degree of certainty about exactly what skulls we may be dealing with,” said archaeologist Jeremy Smith.  

Six prehistoric villages of the Mill Creek people were detected in Iowa during a magnetic survey project. Bone and shell tools, fishing hooks, scrapers, and a hoe were recovered, along with pottery.  

Take a quick tour of Ephesus, an ancient city on Turkey’s western coast.

 A cache of coins that was burned during the destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 A.D. has gone on display for the first time in Jerusalem. “These really show us the impact of the destruction of Jerusalem in the first century,” said Gabriela Bijovsky of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Veteran Don Chalmers has returned a surviving wood candlestick he removed from a ransacked church on the Solomon Islands during World War II. “We were rummaging around. The chapel was trashed. The candlesticks were so out of place in this rubble. It was amazing they weren’t damaged,” he recalled.  

A partial silver-plated serving set pulled from the wreckage of the USS Arizona in the 1940s will not be auctioned off after all. “U.S. Navy craft and their associated contents remain the property of the U.S. Navy unless expressly abandoned or title is transferred by appropriate U.S. government authority,” said Navy spokesman Bill Doughty. Many of the 1,177 men who died on the ship in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, are entombed there.  

Learn how to read the Maya Long Count calendar at USA Today.  

Last month, a stone bearing the carved name of a Civil War soldier was uncovered near West Virginia’s Fort Boreman Historical Park.   

Authorities in Cyprus think that thieves tried to remove a 2,000-year-old standing stone used in making olive oil from an archaeological site. “Someone illegally entered the site and removed the stone. It appears that because of its massive weight, the thieves were unable to take it far and left it in a nearby field,” said Pissouri Village Council Secretary Petros Foutas.