More evidence for pre-Columbian settlements in the Amazon has been found, this time by Brazilian and Swedish archaeologists who have located remains of about 90 settlements south of the city of Santarém.

Excavation related to highway construction in Wales has revealed Roman, Iron, and Bronze remains, including a ringed ditch representing an early prehistoric burial mound.

A former Long Island museum director was fined and sentenced to jail time for stealing Egyptian artifacts from his own institution’s collection and then selling them through an auction house.

Meanwhile, Egypt’s chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, has announced the discovery of the 4,000-year-old tomb of a priest named Rwd-ka near the Giza pyramids.

Bulgarian archaeologist Nikolay Ovcharov, excavating at Perperikon in the Rhodope Mountains, has found artifacts ranging from a 7,000-year-old miniature stone grinder to Roman-era surgical instruments.

The Native American community from around Vallejo, California, held a prayer vigil this past weekend to publicize and help avert the city’s plan to improve a park, which includes an ancient site, by building picnic tables, public bathrooms, and a parking lot.

The U.S. Navy’s Underwater Archeology Branch, led by Bob Neyland, is on the lookout for the USS Bonhomme Richard.

More artifacts from the wreck of what’s believed to be Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s flagship, are slated to go on view in the Carteret County Museum in North Carolina in 2011.

Archaeologists the world over can now use the Harris Matrix—the standard method for recording stratigraphic archaeology—on the iPad.

Raul Matadamas Diaz, director of Bocana del Rio Copalita Archaeological Project in Oaxaca, Mexico, says his studies indicate that the population of this site  might have exceeded 2,000 persons.

Archaeologists in Cupids, Newfoundland, have unearthed a 400-year-old cannon platform, perhaps used to fortify the settlement from the threat of pirates.

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