A wreck in Maryland’s Patuxent River could be the USS Scorpion, which fought the British during the War of 1812 as part of the Chesapeake Flotilla. When the flotilla was trapped on the Patuxent, Commodore Joshua Barney destroyed his ships to keep them from falling into British hands. The path to Washington, D.C., however, was opened, and the British advanced on the capital.  

A home that belonged to early Scottish settlers in Prince Edward Island is being excavated by archaeologists from Parks Canada. They aren’t sure what they will find. “Really, the records going back into the late eighteenth century are very poor,” said John Palmer of the Stanhope Historical Society.  

A man has pled guilty to digging 15 holes at Chickamauga Battlefield in Georgia, and taking Civil War era bullets.  

Artifacts smuggled out of Bulgaria have been seized in Montreal.  

A winery has been unearthed at an early Byzantine fortress on the northern Black Sea coast.  

Two Danish archaeologists investigating meteorological stations built in Greenland by the Nazis were attacked by a polar bear. One of the men was armed, and he shot and killed the bear. The other suffers from bites and claw marks.

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