U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups has sentenced Jeanne Redd and Jerrica Redd of Blandings, Utah, to probation and fines after they pleaded guilty to ten felonies between them for the illegal trafficking in ancient American Indian artifacts. The “prosecution in this case provides sufficient deterrence,” he said.

Three men were arrested in Bulgaria with Roman coins, rings, and other artifacts in their possession.  

Bulgarian archaeologist Nikolay Ovcharov says he has unearthed an enormous cult complex of at least nine altars at the Thracian city of Perperikon.  

Carvings inside a Neolithic tomb on an Orkney island may represent human eyes and eyebrows. The carvings resemble the face of a tiny sandstone human figurine uncovered this summer.  

A 4,500-year-old arrowhead was unearthed in the Burren, County Clare’s “stony place.”  

Earlier this summer, the bones of at least 51 young men, who had been decapitated and buried in a pit in southwest England about 1,000 years ago, were found. Were they Vikings killed by Saxons? Osteologist Ceri Boston has been examining the bones and has shed some light on the story.  

A Viking hoard of silver, discovered in a muddy field in 2007, is on display at the Yorkshire Museum.  

Discovery News has picked up the story of the tiny gemstone engraved with an image of Alexander the Great that was discovered at Tel Dor, once a major port on Israel’s Mediterranean coast.  

Artifacts from Lady Dai’s tomb, opened in the 1970s, are traveling around the United States. Lady Dai was a wealthy noblewoman in the Han Dynasty. “We are looking at a tomb in southern China from a very important cultural region that contributed some of the greatest literature and mythology and art to China,” said curator Susan Tai for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.  

A prisoner of war camp where German soldiers were kept during World War II has been unearthed in England at a landfill site.   A former prisoner at the camp remembers his time there.  

Restoration of a monastery in northwest Hungary has revealed a Gothic passageway and some murals that decorated a seventeenth-century dining hall.

A criminal complaint was filed yesterday against the former director of the Hillwood Museum at Long Island University. He is accused of stealing nine ancient Egyptian artifacts donated to the museum and selling them at Christie’s auction house.

An early seventeenth-century village known as Argall Towne has been discovered near Jamestown, Virginia. People lived at the village, on land owned by Samuel Argall, for two years. Archaeologist Alain Outlaw has been looking for it for the past 32 years.  

Archaeologist Jon Prangnell says he has found traces of the first British convict settlement in Queensland, Australia.  

A section of street paved in stone slabs has been uncovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority south of the Temple Mount. “In the Second Temple Period, pilgrims would begin the ascent to the Temple from here. This is the southernmost tip of the road, of which a section has already been discovered along the western face of the Temple Mount,” said archaeologist Ronny Reich.  

Take a look at the sonar image of a Civil War blockade runner discovered in Florida’s Hillsborough River.  

Here’s more information on the reburial of the remains of a Civil War soldier discovered by a hiker at Antietam National Battlefield.  

A Roman military cremation cemetery on Hadrian’s Wall is being excavated before it erodes away.  

Is the FBI looking for Jimmy Hoffa beneath a Detroit lumberyard?