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Mammoth Ottoman Hoard |
Some 60,000 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century silver coins have been discovered in Turkey. |
Bizarre Rituals |
An ancient cemetery found on the grounds of a prison just south of Columbus, Ohio, defies easy explanation. |
Runestone Fakery |
Runic inscriptions found on a boulder in Minnesota last May were carved by graduate students in 1985. |
Hoax Update |
Japanese archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura has admitted to faking discoveries on at least 42 sites in Japan. |
Mural Flap |
China and South Korea are pointing fingers at each other following the looting of tomb murals from a Chinese town on the North Korean border. |
Tuscan Excalibur? |
Archaeologists recently investigated the legend of a sword allegedly plunged into a stone in a Tuscan chapel by Galgano Guidotti. |
Caves and Climate |
Stalagmites in Carlsbad Caverns show that climate change coincided with major cultural innovations in the prehistoric Southwest. |
Car Wash Cover-up |
Remains of Upper Canada's first parliament have been found beneath a car wash in Toronto. |
Bogus Time Capsule |
When Dublin archaeologists started digging foundations on which a nineteenth-century pillar once stood, they suspected they might find something interesting. |
Rare Ashoka Statues Discovered in India |
Two sandstone slabs in India could hold the key to the life of the warrior-king Ashoka. |
Curtains for Overkill? |
A zooarchaeologist argues that climate change did in the mammoths and other large mammals. |
Revisiting the Rose |
Test excavations show London's sixteenth-century Rose Theater is well preserved. |
Columbus Mystery Ship |
The remains of a ship found off Panama's Atlantic coast may be the Vizcaina. |
"Auto House" Discovered |
Historical archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered the foundations of a ca. 1920 garage. |
Pottery Heist |
Last July someone slipped into the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, making off with 21 Native American pots. |