Representative Juan Zapata wants to sell off Florida’s Spanish treasure to raise cash for the state budget. He thought the state owned artifacts from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, but it doesn’t, and state officials didn’t offer to tell him what Florida does own. “These are tough times, but we don’t sell treasure as a Florida family. We don’t sell the family Bible or grandmother’s china,” explained Ryan Wheeler, chief of archaeological research.

A new book supports the theory that substandard rivets were used in the construction of Titanic. The researchers found evidence of problems in the archives of Harland and Wolff, the company that built Titanic, Olympic, and Britannic all at once, and they examined rivets from the wreckage of the ship.  

Concerned citizen Mitch Cole of Utah found evidence of illegal digging at a rock art site and did something about it.  

Bradley T. Lepper turns the spotlight on forensic archaeology in his column for The Columbus Dispatch.  

Pictures of the gold coins bearing the image of the Roman Emperor Valens have been published. The coins were discovered at a monastery site in Sinai.

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