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.

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