A Dutchman found 28 100,000-year-old stone axes in gravel dredged from the North Sea.

HMS Hunter, a British destroyer sunk by the Germans in World War II, has been discovered in the Ofot fjord, outside of Norway’s port of Narvik. More than 100 men died.  

Thirty-eight digs along the route of Rome’s third subway line have revealed Roman taverns, a Renaissance palace, a medieval kitchen containing two sauce pots, and a copper factory.  

Researchers are studying tsunamis from antiquity to try and predict when the next one will strike. They think that a tsunami-generating earthquake could hit the eastern Mediterranean in 800 years.  

In Australia, archaeologists think they have found the mass grave holding the remains of “legendary outlaw” Ned Kelly. Kelly was hanged for his crimes in 1880 at the old Melbourne Gaol, but the bodies of executed prisoners were moved to another jail cemetery in 1929.   A re-enactor wears armor like Ned Kelly’s in this photograph.

A 2,500-year-old waterhole lined with wickerwork was discovered at York University in northern England, at a site which also contains a Roman building.

In Scotland, a medieval copper belt buckle turned up in a collapsed sewer, along with animal bones, shells, pottery, and a padlock.  

Some 3,000 Anglo-Saxon skeletons that were dug up 30 years ago will be reburied in a ceremony conducted in Anglo Saxon. Scientists from English Heritage used the bones to study diseases.  

What is being called a significant Aboriginal camping and hunting ground and burial site was uncovered in drought-stricken Queensland, Australia.

Two small nineteenth-century cannons that washed ashore in Oregon still belong to the Navy. The guns are thought to have come from the Navy schooner USS Shark, the last of such ships used to suppress slave traders and pirates.  

In a collaborative effort, a settlement pattern regional survey of southeastern Shandong Province has been completed by Chinese and American scientists.