The legs of a young woman from the Iron Age have been recovered from a bog in Ireland’s County Laois.

An Iron Age burial cist and pottery have been uncovered at a construction site on Scotland’s Isle of Skye.

A mass grave of young men has been found in Oxford, England. The 35 skeletons bear wound marks and some have fractured or crushed skulls. The men may have been Danes who were killed during the St Brice’s Day Massacre, ordered by King Ethelred in 1002 A.D.

Five Thracian tombs untouched by looters have been found in northeastern Bulgaria.

Teens, volunteers, and shipwrights are working together in Bath, Maine, to build a replica of The Virginia, a seventeenth century pinnace thought to have been the first ship constructed by English colonists in North America.

Twenty “gladiators” have been arrested in Rome for intimidating and attacking others who try to break into the business.

A Colorado couple has been sentenced in Utah after their 2009 arrest in the federal artifacts sting.

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