Archaeology Magazine

There's no doubt that the fossil primate named Ida, after paleontologist Jørn Hurum's young daughter, is big news, and page one coverage in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal attests it's more than just a bit of evolutionary road kill. Ida is the subject of a two-hour History Channel documentary, "The Link," which will debut on May 25.

Balkan Travellers

The latest archaeological research at the ancient observatory of Kokino in north-eastern Macedonia revealed layers from the Iron Period, around the seventh century BC, Minister of Culture Elizabeta Kancheska-Milevska declared today.

NewsChannel 9 WSYR

Digging to make way for a new building in downtown Syracuse unearthed the last remaining part of the 1895 New York Central Railroad.

Monterey County Herald

As soon as construction crew members working next to the Sardine Factory realized they had unearthed human remains, the back hoe was turned off and a call was placed to the Monterey Police Department. Turns out the skeleton found under the parking lot near Cannery Row was that of a woman, perhaps thousands of years old and probably a member of the Esselen Indian tribe.

Globe and Mail

Archivists at Brock University dig into the mystery of how 13th-century document wound up in their offices in St. Catharines

Italy Magazine

Italian experts will help Iran restore the tomb of Cyrus the Great (580-529BC), considered one of the most magnificent monuments of antiquity, Culture Minister Sandro Bondi said on Wednesday.

Science Daily

Researchers from the University of California at Davis (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) present a virtual reconstruction of a female Neanderthal pelvis from Tabun (Israel).

Vancouver Sun

The Pacific Coast of the Americas was settled starting about 15,000 years ago during the last glacial retreat by seafaring peoples following a "kelp highway" rich in marine resources, a noted professor of anthropology theorized Wednesday.

BBC

Archaeologists hope to uncover remains of the "lost mansion" of a Jacobite sympathiser who had his wife kidnapped and sent into exile on a remote island.

Cosmos Magazine

Stonehenge is one of the world's best known monuments. But why it was built remains a riddle  one that the first archaeological dig in 40 years sought to solve.