Gold artifacts, including rings and coins, have been found in a burial mound in southeastern Bulgaria.   They’ve also found a bronze candlestick.

A fifth-century skeleton was uncovered at a Byzantine cathedral in northeastern Syria.  

A 16,000-year-old mother goddess figurine has reportedly been unearthed in Direkli Cave, located in southern Turkey.  

The controversy continues over the exhumation of 300 British and Australian World War I soldiers from a mass grave in Fromelles, France. There has been “a tremendous amount of confusion about what is happening and we really need more transparency,” said battlefield archaeologist Tony Pollard, who led the original evaluation dig of the site in 2007.  

National Geographic News has picked up the story on London’s oldest timber structure.  

Archaeologists have developed a floor plan of Scotland’s Scone Abbey, and they say that they can now estimate where the coronation of Scottish kings would have taken place. “Almost all other medieval monasteries have upstanding remains: this is the only one that doesn’t,” said medieval archaeologist Peter Yeoman.  

Evidence for occupation during the Iron Age and the Roman period has been unearthed in Impington, England. “We can now see the origins of the village going back over 2,000 years,” said Chris Thatcher of Oxford Archaeology East.  

More than 1,000 cannonballs were discovered at a school in south India. “They are 150 years old and belong to the British Army,” said Chenna Reddy, Archaeology and Museums director.  

Egypt’s head of research for the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Tarek El Awady, has recommended that an air-tight showcase be purchased for the conservation of a mummy at a museum in Hyderabad.  

Here’s more on a new study of the so-called Hobbits by Debbie Argue of Australian National University. “We’re looking at a very archaic being indeed, one that appears to have gone its own evolutionary way long before our species emerged,” she said.  

A new study of the official death registers for Vienna in the winter of 1791 suggests that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died of a kidney complication from a strep throat infection. An epidemic of strep throat may have begun in the city’s military hospital.

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