The York Museums Trust in York and the British Museum have purchased a ninth-century Viking hoard from its discoverers.

Fragments of a recently found 2,000-year-old gilded bronze equestrian statue of the Emperor Augustus were unveiled today by German archaeologists.

Andrew Jackson killed Charles Dickinson in a duel on May 30, 1806, in Logan, Kentucky. But what happened to Dickinson’s body?

Ball and chain update—with photos!

The Tamil Nadu archaeologists are nearly finished documenting some 25,000 Tamil inscriptions found in different temples across the state. Just 2,000 more to do!

Here’s a good article about Saudi ambivalence toward pre-Islamic remains.

A Colorado man who sold Native American artifacts on the web is the 26th person charged in the federal investigation of looting in the Southwest.

Here’s an update on the federal investigation of looting in the Southwest. Numbers: 26 charged, $335,000 spent by informant to buy 250+ apparently illicit objects.

Local archaeologists in Delaware have been excavating at Avery’s Rest, named for wealthy colonial settler John Avery.

Parks Canada archaeologist Charles Burke deplores the looting at Beaubassin, an Acadian village site in Nova Scotia.

Here’s a lengthier description of the public archaeology program at Beaubassin that was mentioned in Tuesday’s news.

In central Sweden archaeologists excavating a 7th-century burial ship have found “equipment, gifts and animal sacrifices.”

Archaeologists with the National Museum of Korea, working with Mongolian colleagues, have excavated a 2,000-year-old skeleton of a nomad at the Xiongnu Tombs of Duurlignars northeast of Ulaanbaatar.

Wyoming’s Governor Freudenthal has signed the proclamation declaring September as Archaeology Awareness Month. You can get the official poster here.

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