PhysOrg

A 95 million year old fossilized jaw discovered in Texas has been identified as a new genus and species of flying reptile, Aetodactylus halli.

The Independent

Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced today the discovery of 383 coins from the Ptolemaic period in the Fayum, or Faiyum, Oasis. Prehistoric jewellery made from ostrich eggs, and a skeleton of a 42 million year old whale were also unearthed.

Press TV

Iranian archeologists have initiated excavations with a view to the preservation of ancient sites in the western provinces of Lorestan and Ilam.

BBC

Evidence found at the Roman site of Silchester could mean it was the site of one of Boudicca's battles.

PhysOrg

They paved paradise and, it turns out, actually did put up a parking lot. A big one. Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football field sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist.

Yahoo News

A study of tree rings provided Thursday the most detailed record yet of at least four epic droughts that hit Asia over the past millennium, including one that helped end China's Ming Dynasty in 1644. Skip related content

Press TV

More ancient graves have been discovered at Iran's Burnt City as archeologists were conducting the 13th phase of excavation works at the prehistoric site.

PhysOrg

Contrary to their image as knuckle dragging brutes, the Neanderthals on television play tennis and attend cocktail parties and sell auto insurance. In reality, these mysterious fellow hominids died out about 30,000 years ago. Today, an international research team is extracting DNA from Neanderthals who were, literally, cavemen. (Their bones were found in Croatian caves.)

The Examiner

Around 0 AD a village was founded on an island near what is now Charlotte Harbor on the southwestern tip of Florida. It was just one of many small fishing villages that composed what archaeologists label the Caloosahatchee Culture.

Global Arab Network

Head of Antiquities of Lower Egypt Department of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud said that archaeological missions working in North Sinai have unearthed Tharu , an ancient fortified city, a move which stressed the importance of this area as the eastern gate of Egypt.