Punic amphora burial, Sestu, Sardinia SESTU, SARDINIA—L’Unione Sarda reports that construction workers installing gas lines along a busy road in southern Sardinia uncovered an ancient Punic necropolis. During the mid-first millennium b.c., parts of the Mediterranean island came under control of Carthaginian settlers from North Africa. Archaeologists called to the …

Western Reserve steering post, Lake Superior, Michigan LAKE SUPERIOR, MICHIGAN—Western Reserve was once deemed one of the safest ships afloat and was nicknamed the “inland greyhound” for her speed along the Great Lakes, but the steamer disappeared beneath the waves of Lake Superior in 1892. Its final resting place was …

Gold and silver coins CAPPERCLEUCH, SCOTLAND—Two amateur metal detectorists searching an area in the Scottish Borders region chanced upon what is being called the “find of a lifetime,” according to a report in The Scotsman. The pair pinpointed a nearly 600-year-old treasure of 30 gold and silver coins that were …

TEOS, TURKEY—The University of Pennsylvania’s Omnia magazine reports on recent archaeological work in Teos, which UPenn archaeologist Mantha Zarmakoupi conducted in collaboration with Ankara University’s Teos Archaeological Project. Teos was an ancient Greek colony founded on Anatolia’s west coast in the early first millennium b.c. It was one of the …

U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert T. McCollum WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that archaeologists were among an international and multi-institutional endeavor that helped recover the remains of a World War II bombardier whose plane crashed off the coast of Denmark. 2nd Lt. Robert T. McCollum …

KHAO SAM ROI YOT NATIONAL PARK, THAILAND—Thai PBS World reports that Thailand’s Fine Arts Department announced an extraordinary discovery––the oldest human skeleton ever found in the country. The bones were unearthed six feet beneath the floor of the Tham Din cave site in Prachuap Khiri Khan. Preliminary analysis indicated the …

DORSET, ENGLAND—New research has re-dated the Flagstones monument in Dorset to 3200 b.c., making it now the earliest known large circular enclosure in Britain, according to a statement released by the University of Exeter. First discovered during highway construction in the 1980s, the site features a ditch 330 feet in …

Bone tool carved from an elephant humerus OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA—According to a statement released by University College London, a collection of 27 fossilized bone artifacts made by hominins in Olduvai Gorge 1.5 million years ago represents the oldest known systematic production of bone tools. The objects, which were fashioned out …

Enameled Roman brooch GIRVAN, SCOTLAND—A mysterious Roman artifact was found in an Iron Age building at the Curragh in South Ayrshire, according to a statement released by Scotland’s GUARD Archaeology. Archaeologists uncovered a rare enameled brooch from the foundation trench of a wooden palisade surrounding a roundhouse inhabited by a …

ERIDU, IRAQ—An international team of archaeologists and anthropologists have remarkably mapped more than 4,000 irrigation canals near the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu, La Brújula Verde reports. Eridu is the southernmost of all the great Mesopotamian cities and is traditionally considered the oldest city in the world based on the …