An intact Viking boat burial of a high-ranking warrior has been discovered in Scotland’s west Highlands. He had been buried with an ax, a sword with a decorated hilt, a spear, and a bronze ring pin.

A fragment of pottery bearing an image of a woman in childbirth has been unearthed at the Etruscan site of Poggio Colla in Italy’s Mugello Valley. Because deposits of weaving tools and gold jewelry have also been found, the 2,700-year-old site is thought to have been sacred to a female patron divinity.

Teams of archaeologists are using high-tech tools to look for a second passage at Newgrange, Ireland’s Neolithic passage tomb.

Receding floodwaters in South Dakota have revealed dozens of ancient bison skulls. Archaeologists will check and see if the site may have been a village or hunting ground.

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