An expert in Elizabethan script and the use of enhanced imagery have shed some light on the slate tablet discovered at Jamestown last summer. Some of the characters may be from an alphabet created to help the English speak the language of the Virginia Indians, while different drawings hint at the owner of the slate. […]

 The Sears Point archaeological site in Arizona has been vandalized. Boulders were rolled out of place and petroglyphs were fractured. A team restoring huts built by Australian polar explorer Sir Douglas Mawson has found historic camera parts. Photographer James “Frank” Hurley was the official photographer on Mawson’s 1911-14 expedition. “We’re not 100 percent sure if […]