• Pilbara digs debunk timeline for ancient tool development

• Divers in Caesarea find largest treasure of gold coins ever discovered in Israel

• Stone Age skeleton judged Norway's oldest

• The men who smuggle the loot that funds IS

• Skeletons from hospital graveyard shed light on early dissections

• Drones and satellites spot lost civilizations in unlikely places

• Ancient burial mound in Upper Midwest to reopen to the public

• 1,000-year-old Buddhist temple found in Munshiganj

• Inside Tutankhamun's Tomb: Photos from the day archaeologists opened the burial chamber

• Paid sick days and physicians at work: Ancient Egyptians had state-supported health care

• Archaeological concerns about Bury St Edmunds development which could contain East Anglia’s oldest cemetery

• An Italian cemetery may provide clues on cholera's evolution

• Researcher uncovers new info on European explorer encounters

• Ancient artefacts at Tullaghoge

• England's oldest surviving cannonball resurfaces near site of the Battle of Northampton between the Yorkists & Lancastrians almost 555 yrs ago - Tree-damaged ball could represent 1st time artillery was used on English soil

• Civil War era steamer wreck exposed (again) on North Carolina beach.

• 11 Greco-Roman papyri make their debut in the Egyptian Museum

• Larger area analysis needed to understand patterns in ancient prehistory

• Grape seeds discovered at renowned wine producing area of the Byzantine period

• Mysterious object found in a Stone Age settlement in Norway

• ASU researcher uses new tools to explore ancient life

• Ancient East Asians mixed and mingled multiple times with Neandertals

• Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia

• Bejewelled backdrop to coronations did not cost a king's ransom

• Picts offer historians a picture of non-Roman Briton culture

• Iron Age Urns Excavated in Auroville

• Richard III Killed by Sword Thrust Upwards Into Neck

• Bedlam burial ground: Excavating the records

• Major archaeological dig underway at Empress Place

• Storm uncovers massive Byzantine pot on beach

• Greek archaeologists find remains of embracing couple in Neolithic tomb

• 100 Years Later, Antarctic Explorers' Huts Look Frozen in Time - Whiskey & all, the wooden dwellings of early explorers have been restored to look as they did during the 1st treks to the continent in the early 1900s.

• Farmer’s field yields its 2,000-year-old secret

• Hampton Court's lost apartment foundations uncovered

• Pits, pots and pitchstone – a palimpsest of prehistory in one corner of Scotland

• Rosetta stone-style stele unearthed in the Mediterranean coast

• Butchered Bones Found in Yukon Cave Bear Marks of Early Americans, Study Finds

• Petroglyph National Monument marred by vandalism, trash

• Underwater Archeology: Diving 800 Feet in Ancient Cathedral

• Archaeological remains found at new Chester theatre site dating back to bronze age

Face-recognition technology has allowed researchers to possibly identify a painting of Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn.

Depictions of Boleyn were systematically destroyed following her 1536 execution, but the University of California’s Amit Roy-Chowdhury has used the one surviving confirmed depiction of her to identify the Nidd Hall Portrait as that of Boleyn, and not Jane Seymour, Henry VIII’s third wife. Identifying the forgotten subjects of paintings using already confirmed depictions is a relatively new field, only recently receiving the required investment. As such, it cannot be totally relied upon for proof.

With further development of this young field, we soon can expect to finally be able to put faces to names of which we have little confirmed depiction, such as William Shakespeare, and identify obscure depictions of otherwise well documented figures, such as Michelangelo Buonarroti and Lorenzo de’ Medici.

Bit of a Valentine's dustup in archives land when USA Today referred to a child porn enthusiast as an "archivist." Archivists were not amused, clutching of pearls etc. I think it's kind of a losing battle myself - some professional organizations (like the ALA getting "librarian" synonymous with an MLS) have been able to lockdown on certain professional titles and set minimum requirements, but I think "archivist" is not going to get there unless SAA wants to do that sort of similar degree-pushing, which it hasn't indicated it does. Until then, we will probably have to just put up with people saying "archive-ist" for any sort of random-crap-hoarder they meet and chill on it.

I was mostly surprised USA Today's house style allowed for such a large word.

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