Plans are being made to excavate a shipwreck in the Patuxent River that archaeologists think could be the USS Scorpion, built in 1814 as the flagship of the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, and scuttled by the Navy to keep it out of British hands. A hurricane that occurred in August of 1814 covered the ship with […]

Three University of California professors have filed a lawsuit to block the transfer of two human skeletons to a Kumeyaay tribe for burial. The 10,000-year-old skeletons were discovered in 1976 on the property of the University of California, San Diego. The researchers say that tests have shown that the two people ate primarily seafood, unlike the […]