A sixteenth-century ship, possible part of the Spanish Armada, has been discovered off Ireland’s Donegal coast.

A second section of a 200-year-old ship has been found in the eighteenth-century landfill at the World Trade Center site in New York City. “It does give us a much better sense of the boat’s original dimensions,” said archaeologist Michael Pappalardo.

Excavations at Isa Khan’s Tomb in Delhi, India, have revealed a sunken garden. “Over the years gardens have come up at the level of the monuments, but this garden has revealed that here it was originally three to four feet below the monument with the tomb sitting high,” said Amita Beg of the World Monuments Fund.

A study of cemeteries in Austria offers clues to the status of the elderly during the Bronze Age.

A five-foot drop in the water level in the Richland Chambers Reservoir in Texas has revealed the location of a cemetery for freed slaves. Most of the graves were moved in the 1980s.

This entry was posted by Jessica E. Saraceni on Friday, August 5, 2011. Discussion of this blog entry is now closed.

Comments posted here do not represent the views or policies of the Archaeological Institute of America.