The Economist

LOOK at an ancient coin under ordinary light and the chances are that its features, worn down by its passage from hand to hand, will be hard to make out. Point a spotlight at it, though, so that the face of the coin is illuminated from an acute angle, and the resulting shadows will emphasise any minor details.

TodaysTHV

It is the oldest national park in our country's park system. The history inside Hot Springs National Park is thousands of years old. And a group of park service archeologists are trying to sort it all out.

The Greeneville Sun

A team of archaeologists from the Southeastern Archaeological Center in Tallahassee, Fla., is conducting an exploratory "dig" in the backyard of the Andrew Johnson Homestead.

BBC

Archaeologists have begun excavating a site in Herefordshire, which they believe may reveal a 3,000 year old earth trench called the King's Ditch.

Anniston Star

Construction on a multi million dollar Oxford sports complex halted a month ago because the discovery of ancient human remains at the site was not reported to the proper authorities an oversight that so far has forced the city to pay approximately $200,000 to its idle project contractor.

Science Daily

The severe epidemic of plague known as the "Black Death" caused the death of a third of the European population in the 14th century.

Science News

Paleontologists digging in Australia's aptly named Dinosaur Cove have unearthed the first known fossils of a tyrannosaur from the Southern Hemisphere.

Xinhua News Agency

An exhibition of relics and fossil remains opened Thursday at Kim Il Sung University's nature museum of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the official news agency KCNA reported.

Peoples Daily Online

Loving couples always wish to die on the same day, and a couple who lived 4,200 years ago in the Sanxing Village of Mimou Township, Qingbaijiang District, fulfilled such a wish.

EurekAlert

This statement isn't new, but for years anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art understood these artistic manifestations as purely aesthetic and decorative motives. Eduardo Palacio Pérez, researcher at the University of Cantabria (UC), now reveals the origins of a theory that remains nowadays lasts into our days.