The complete H.L. Hunley was unveiled in South Carolina after a decade of conservation work that has kept most of it hidden from view. In 1864, the Confederate submarine torpedoed the Union warship Housatonic, but then sank, killing its crew of eight. “The submarine was a perfect time capsule of everything inside,” said archaeologist Ben Rennison.

Archaeologists are investigating the site of a future Irish Cultural Museum, which will be built in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

The Northern Tutchone people did not become dependent upon Fort Selkirk, a fur trading post in the Yukon, according to research conducted by Victoria Castillo of Yukon College and the University of Alberta. She found few First Nation artifacts at the fort, indicating that not much trade took place.

The contents of a bathroom dating to the late 1850s  have been removed from Dunleith Plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, and will be reassembled in a Greek Revival mansion in Natchez National Historical Park. Jeff Mansell of the National Park Service says that there are fewer than 20 such bathrooms left in the country.

A Swiss court has ordered that a rare silver coin minted in the fifth century B.C. must be confiscated from an unidentified collector. The coin may have been illegally excavated in northern Greece before it was sold at auction in Switzerland.

In the Netherlands, archaeologists are excavating the trash pit associated with Westerbork, a Nazi detention and transit camp where Jews were imprisoned during World War II. “At first I thought it was an insane and stupid idea, but now I think there should be a permanent collection,” said camp survivor Micha Schliesser.

Members of the public were asked if they knew about any possible ancient sites along the shorelines of Scotland’s Western Isles. Archaeologists are now working on confirming and dating previously unrecorded Neolithic pottery, a complex of fish traps, and a possible medieval fishing village. “We’re relying on the knowledge of people who live and work on or near the sea, and who might have noticed something out of the ordinary,” said Jonathan Benjamin of WA Coastal and Marine.  And don’t miss these beautiful aerial photographs of those archaeological sites along the coasts of Scotland’s Western Isles.

The charred remains of a 3,500-year-old structure were unearthed in Texas along the banks of the San Antonio River, where archaeologists were looking for a Spanish mission. The building is the third oldest to be found in the state of Texas.

A piece of ceramic urn bearing the image of a Thracian horseman carrying a sword has been unearthed in Bulgaria, at the ancient site of Perperikon.