Canada’s Environment Minister announced that the search for the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus will continue this summer. The two ships were lost in the Canadian Arctic on Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to discover the Northwest Passage in 1845. “Franklin was a considerable figure in Arctic exploration. We’ve been looking for Franklin for 160 years,” said British High Commissioner Andrew Pocock.

A prison built by the Ottoman Turks within Jerusalem’s Old City will be open to the public for a few weeks this month. A lack of funds has kept the building closed, but a dig ten years ago revealed walls built by Herod and medieval facilities for dyeing fabric. “On this tiny spot we have the whole story of Jerusalem,” said Amit Re’em of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

See recent sonar images of the Civil War shipwrecks CSS Florida and USS Cumberland. Researchers are also mapping ships sunk in 1942 during the Battle of the Atlantic off North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

Students from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse have excavated a section of a 500-year-old Oneota long house, recovering some 7,000 artifacts.

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