This weekly feature is a place to discuss new developments in fields of history and archaeology. This can be newly discovered documents and archaeological sites, recent publications, documents that have just become publicly available through digitization or the opening of archives, and new theories and interpretations.
So, what's new this week?
Here's something to talk about -- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/science/tracing-ancestry-team-produces-genetic-atlas-of-human-mixing-events.html?_r=0
“In some sense we don’t want to talk to historians,” Dr. Falush said. “There’s a great virtue in being objective: You put the data in and get the history out.”
A crosspost from /r/worldnews of all places, but apparently a linguist at the University of Bedfordshire has managed to decipher a few bits of the Voynich manuscript.
Here's the article they linked to in worldnews, press release from the university, so I don't know how truthful it is, but figured it sure qualified as a development in history.