Unearthed in a medieval Irish graveyard, two skeletons have evidence of a rare hereditary bone growth disorder known as multiple osteochondromas, which causes massive bone growths. The discovery may help clinicians today understand the disorder.

In case anyone out there still thinks that prehistoric peoples lived in harmony with Nature, this will article set them straight.

Excavation of an 1880s site in Santa Cruz, California, that was the location of small cabins occupied by lime-kiln workers—thought to be unskilled, poorly paid single men—has produced some surprising artifacts such as a gold ring and a mother-of-pearl hairpin.

Hernando de Soto’s 1539-1540 winter encampment—in what is now a Tallahassee neighborhood—was partly excavated in 1987. Some researchers and residents are wondering if there’s more to be found under their backyards.

This review of the book A History of Beer and Brewing gives a quick worldwide survey of ancient brews.

A summary of the discovery of a Clovis point near Sahuarita that is now on its way to the Arizona State Museum in Tucson.

East Carolina University graduate students are studying shipwrecks—there are more than 60 of them—in the Pasquotank River.

The Putnam Museum in Davenport has recently CT scanned its mummy. The coffin says it once held Isis Neferit, a chantress in the Temple of Isis, who lived about 3,000 years ago. The new research says the mummy isn’t Isis but a woman who lived 600 years later.

The mummy of Iret-net-Hor-irw, also known as Irethorrou, was just scanned. Long in Stockton’s Haggin Museum, Irethorrou is moving to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, from which he had been on loan since 1944.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to attempt to save two large timbers from the site of Fort Edward in upstate New York. The timbers, contaminated with PCBs, were initially to be buried in a landfill.

From a 500-year-old bowl, to timbers from 1832, to a 50-cent baseball game ticket, excavation at one of the University of Georgia’s oldest buildings is turning up just about everything.

Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a unique 10th-century Byzantine seal at the site of the Knyazhevski Monastery near Varna.

This review of Bogota’s Gold Museum following a recent renovation is basically positive, though it faults the interior for emphasizing the building as much as the artifacts.

This entry was posted by Archaeology Magazine on Monday, August 24, 2009. Discussion of this blog entry is now closed.

Comments posted here do not represent the views or policies of the Archaeological Institute of America.