Wednesday What's New in History

by Reedstilt

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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.

Mictlantecuhtli

Italy unveils record haul of rare antiquities

Hatay museum set to take title of world's largest mosaic collection

Ancient ship wreckage discovered in Xi'an

Beautifully painted Yuan dynasty murals discovered inside tomb

Vandals damage Jordan Cave archaeological site

New Tech Could Reveal Texts in 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls from Herculaneum

Archaeologists Investigate Ancient Greek Temenos on Black Sea Island

Drones and 600-year-old timbers to help archaeologists in Anglo-Saxon Shropshire

Iraq tries to get Babylon on world heritage list

Exeter Roman Baths excavation plans

Ancient bone hand ax identified in China

Spaniards survived on a diet of dogs and badgers 3,000 years ago

Urartian trade seal unearthed

Five Dead Inside Amphipolis Tomb

Trajan's Column sheds light on women's role in ancient Roman army

35,000-year-old skeleton to return to Egypt

£150k 'Cat's gravestone' bought by Somerset Museum

Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel

Greek Culture Ministry Plans to Reopen Old Acropolis Museum

The Red Pyramid: Egypt’s forgotten architectural marvel

Aztec app brings historic Mexico codex into the digital age

Dig at Twentynine Palms Marine base unveils artifacts

ArchaeoSpain Calls for Participants in Mallorca Excavation of a Byzantine Settlement

Head of god Hermes seized in Anatolia

Antiquity of dairying on Emerald Isle revealed

B.C. to buy Grace Islet to protect First Nations burial ground

More than 160,000 York Museums Trust treasures go online for the first time

Moat found, believed part of emperor’s tomb

Items lost in the Stone Age are found in melting glaciers

Roman drunkard found on Danish island

A viking blacksmith buried with his tools

Treasured 16th-Century 'Lenox Globe' Gets a Digital Makeover

GusTurbo

I liked this article about how Oregon was founded as a racist utopia. Eye opening stuff.

Subs-man

The discovery & excavation of a Viking ship off the north-western coast of Galicia, Spain making it quite possible the Vikings colonised or at the very least conquered a part of Spain.

TheGreenReaper7

David Carpenter has, impressively, already outdated his book Magna Carta (published 01/01/2015). For more information see his blog post on the Magna Carta Project website.