Asahi Shimbum

An ancient tomb, constructed in traditional keyhole style denoting someone of very high rank, may well be the final resting place of Himiko, the legendary third-century queen of the Yamatai kingdom, say archaeologists who relied on radiocarbon dating for their finding.

Cincinnati Enquirer

A local archeologist dismissed Dirk Morgan's find as just an odd sandstone boulder probably shaped by nature.

ABC Science News

The smallpox epidemic that devastated the Aboriginal population surrouding Sydney in 1789, could have been the result of a stopover by the First Fleet, says an Australian historian.

San Francisco Chronicle

Construction workers digging near Cannery Row have found a female skeleton that may be thousands of years old.

Wetherby Today

THE discovery of a large medieval limekiln in Ripon has caused great excitement among local historians and archaeologists.

TCPalm

Part of an answer to how many thousands of years Indians lived on the Treasure Coast can be found in grains of sand 15 feet underground behind the new Indian River County Administration building.

BBC

A rare 18th Century chandelier has been restored to its former glory and returned to its original church home.

Sonoma Valley Sun

Prehistoric shellmounds have intrigued California archaeologists for over a hundred years. It was Nels Nelson, an archaeologist out of Berkeley, who set out in 1908 to document these mounds situated around the San Francisco Bay. He mapped well over 400 and probably missed, for a variety of reasons, hundreds if not thousands. Nelson estimated he walked over 3,000 miles during his survey.

BBC

Ancient Roman writing tablets suggest public officials were involved in expenses scandals 2,000 years ago.

New York Times

A thousand years ago, the northern and southern branches of the Silk Road converged at this oasis town near the western edge of the Taklamakan Desert. Traders from Delhi and Samarkand, wearied by frigid treks through the world' s most daunting mountain ranges, unloaded their pack horses here and sold saffron and lutes along the city' s cramped streets. Chinese traders, their camels laden with silk and porcelain, did the same.