Wall Street Journal

Even after years of excavations at the 18th century military outpost that inspired James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans," archaeologist David Starbuck says there's still plenty of history waiting to be unearthed.

NPR

An anthropologist has found what she believes are stone tools in a street excavation in downtown Sitka. The finds if they are confirmed could help shed light on Paleolithic humans who either lived in, or passed through, the region.

New Scientist

The bizarre object to the right was found in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian architect. For over 100 years, it has languished while archaeologists debated its function.

Dayton Daily News

Excavations in the bowels of an ancient Roman hill have turned up a well preserved, late 1st century wall mosaic with a figure of Apollo, nude except for a colorful mantle over a shoulder.

EurekAlert

New research sheds light on why, after 300,000 years of domination, European Neanderthals abruptly disappeared. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered that modern humans coming from Africa swarmed the region, arriving with over ten times the population as the Neanderthal inhabitants.

Sofia Echo

A well preserved skeleton from the copper age has been discovered in an archaeological reserve in Kozareva mound near Kableshkovo in Pomorie.

Unreported Heritage News

There's breaking news from the site of Tell Tayinat, in Turkey. A team of archaeologists led by Tim Harrison, from the University of Toronto, have discovered a beautifully carved stone lion that dates back around 2,800 years. It stands nearly four feet tall and appears to be roaring.

Press TV

Archeologists have unearthed an ancient palace dating back to the Achaemenid dynasty in Dahaneh Gholaman located in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan Baluchestan.

CBC News

Archeologists plan to begin a high tech search today for lost graves at the Uncle Tom's Cabin historic site in southwestern Ontario.

New York Times

For more than a decade, anthropologists and historians pieced together the history of a short lived African American community that was snuffed out in the 1850s by the creation of Central Park. They combed vital records and tax documents, scanned parkland using radar and studied soil borings.