A Florida-based deep-sea salvage company has been ordered by the 11^th U.S. circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to return nearly 600,000 gold and silver coins to Spain. The coins were recovered from the ocean’s floor off the coast of Spain in 2007.

A large piece of a shipwreck washed ashore on a Lake Michigan beach. It is thought to be the bilge keelson from the schooner Jennie and Annie, which sank 140 years ago. Most of its crew was lost.

Three human skulls were uncovered in central Florida during the excavation of a swimming pool. Biological archaeologist Rachel Wentz thinks there may have been a small cemetery connected to a migrant worker camp at the site until the 1980s.

An ax head discovered in Gloucestershire, England, has been identified as a Viking implement  that could have been used during a battle that took place in 894 A.D. It was found in an area where the Vikings may have tied up their ships.

Don’t miss these photographs of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley at National Geographic Daily News.

Five students in Estonia are living an Iron Age life in a hand-built hut for five days. “Things I miss from the modern world would be a chimney, toilet paper and electricity for light,” said Kristiina Paavel.

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