A thirteenth-century Mongolian ship has been found off the coast of Japan. It is thought to be one of the 4,400 ships in Kublai Khan’s ill-fated invasion fleet.

A 900-year-old Sican tomb has been uncovered in Lambayeque, Peru. “On reaching the level of the burial the person’s tomb appeared, first with a crown of copper and silver, a copper mask with teeth, a necklace of disks and other ornaments made of copper,” said an unnamed archaeologist, who was quoted by Andina, the Peru News Agency.

The cooking residues found in various 6,000-year-old pots from Northern Europe suggest that early farmers continued to supplement their diets with marine and freshwater fish. “Although farming was introduced rapidly across this region, it may not have caused such a dramatic shift from hunter-gatherer life as we previously thought,” said Oliver Craig of the University of York.

Road construction in Delaware has prompted the excavation of Boyd’s Corner, the location of a farmhouse and general store owned by Irish immigrant John Boyd in the early nineteenth century. “We see evidence that even when it was a rural area, people were able to provide themselves with the implements to farm … but also had the discretionary money to buy things like toys for the children,” said Department of Transportation archaeologist David S. Clarke.

A human jawbone with six worn teeth has been found along Washington’s Columbia River, near the place where Kennewick Man was discovered in 1996. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has the bone.

And a 1,000-year-old human skull was found on the banks of Lake Georgetown in Texas.

An archaeological investigation into the crash of a U.S. bomber on the Isle of Skye in 1945 supports eyewitness accounts, and not the official report made at the time. The nine-member crew became disoriented in bad weather, flew in the wrong direction, and hit the mountain of Beinn Edra.

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