Loggers in Oregon discovered the wreckage of a World War II-era, U.S. Navy aircraft last week. Investigators do not know yet if human remains are at the site. One such plane was reported missing in 1945 with two crew members.

A technique developed to generate 3-D imagery for computer games is helping archaeologists to get a better look at artifacts. Known as polynomial texture mapping, the process captures digital images of an object while it is lit from different angles.

Sir Charles Nicholson, a founder of the University of Sydney and a notable Australian, has been shown to have been born Isaac Ascough, the illegitimate son of an English farm laborer’s daughter. Historian Michael Turner of the Nicholson Museum found the proof. “We know for certain that Isaac Ascough became Charles Nicholson, and went out of his way to distance himself from his past, as many people did at that time. Australia was the ideal place to come,” he explained.

National Park Service archaeologists are digging in Hot Springs National Park, located in Arkansas. “There’s a lot of archaeology back here, both historic and prehistoric,” according to archaeologist Bill Hunt.

National Park Service archaeologists are also digging at the Andrew Johnson Homestead, in Greeneville, Tennessee, in order to pinpoint the locations of structures that once stood on the property. Andrew Johnson became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was impeached in 1868.

A 20-year-old and a 13-year-old were reportedly shooting paintballs that damaged petroglyphs in Grapevine Canyon, located in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The paint will be cleaned up, but it will probably leave an oil stain on the rock.

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