Macau Daily Times

Archaeologists from Beijing discovered part of an ancient wall and some artifacts from the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China behind the Ruins of St. Paul's area.

ABC Online

Scientists say an Aboriginal rock art depiction of an extinct giant bird could be Australia's oldest painting.

Calcutta Telegraph

Archaeological excavations at Boxanagar in Sonamura subdivision of West Tripura have unearthed a large Buddhist complex, including relics of a stupa, teaching centre, a bronze image of Buddha and seals in Brahmi script, triggering a controversy over the history of the state.

Daily Mail

Picture your dream home on a Mediterranean island. The walls are whitewashed and sun streams in through wide olive-wood windows. The view as far as the eye can see is a stretch of perfect blue water.

Greenville Daily Reflector

Scientists from throughout the world are in Greenville this week to get a first-hand look at efforts to preserve artifacts believed to have been aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge.

The Examiner

Capitan Juan Pardo probably stayed here in the autumn of 1567

We are temporarily jumping out of chronological order in this series on Native American architecture. The writer is currently camped out in a mountainous bear sanctuary in the general vicinity of three Muskogean towns on the beautiful Hiwassee Rive, that were probably visited by Capitan Juan Pardo in the autumn of 1567. Mounds are still visible at the Peachtree site, five miles south of Murphy, NC and the Quanasee site near Hayesville, NC.

Science News

An ancient hominid hung out on grassy savannas, not in forests as initially claimed, a new study argues. Whether the species trucked across open savannas has major implications for understanding how and why human ancestors began walking upright, scientists say.

AlphaGalileo

The large number of various and luxurious grave goods and personal belongings found in the graves, most of them being imports; show that the buried people had been representatives of the Thracian nobility. Most probably they had been members of a wealthy aristocratic family living in one of the villas situated near the present day village of Borissovo during the second half of the 1st the early 2nd century AD.

EurekAlert

Demonstrating that chemistry sometimes can inform history, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Colorado College and Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Md., have shown that sensitive nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques can be used to determine the elemental composition of ancient coins, even coins that generally have been considered too corroded for such methods. Along the way, the researchers' analysis of coins minted in ancient Judea has raised new questions about who ruled the area while giving insight into trading patterns and industry in the region.

University of Pennsylvania

Genetic researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have combined data from existing archaeological and linguistic studies of Africa with human genetic data to shed light on the demographic history of the continent from which all human activity emerged.