• Westminster Abbey lavatory block gives way to medieval burial find - Remains of at least 50 people, all believed to date from 11th and early 12th century, discovered during demolition work to make space for new tower.

• Official says Egypt approves radar for Nefertiti tomb quest

• 'Witchcraft' Island Reveals Evidence of Stone Age Rituals

• Bones of Indigenous Victim Reveal Brutality Of European Colonization Of Gran Canaria

• Excavations of what is thought to be the oldest surviving structure in Kerry have uncovered a burial site which dates back almost 6,000 years.

• Oldest traces of heavy metal pollution caused by humans uncovered

• Pre-Roman tomb unearthed in Pompeii

• Antiquities Authority attempts to solve mystery of Tomb of the Maccabees

• Riddle of the Ages Solved: Where Did the Philistines Come From?

• Archaeologist reconstructs faces of Stone Age people.

• 5,000-Year-Old Throne Found in Turkey

• Tutankhamun's tomb off the tourist track starting October

• Mountain came to men: study on ancient stone tools in B.C. First Nations in British Columbia were once believed to have travelled long distances to find prized volcanic rock for tools, but a new study of an ancient village suggests the mountain actually came to them.

• Mystery of medieval child grave in Frankfurt under the cathedral

• Tourists fume as unions shut down Rome Colosseum

• Ancient Currency Exchange Reveals Trade Ties Between Thessaloniki, Black Sea Area

• Board Game Pieces Found in Settlement Built on Roman Military Fort

• Skeletons of 200 Napoleonic troops found in Germany: Frankfurt site reveals bodies of French soldiers of the Grande Armée who fought in the Russian campaign of 1813

• Environmental archaeology: Towards a culture-connected nation

• Melting Ice in Yellowstone is Revealing Ancient Artifacts Faster Than Researchers Can Handle: The tools, spears and even baskets from ancient Native Americans are emerging faster than archeologists can collect them

• Intact 2,700-Year-Old Tomb Found in Northern Peru

• America’s Largest Earthwork, Cahokia’s Monks Mound, May Have Been Built in Only 20 Years, Study Says

• Data analysis yields striking maps of human expansion in North American Holocene

• Ancient Script Spurs Rethinking of Historic ‘Backwater’

• Crowdsourcing digs up an early human species

• 16 Pyramids Discovered in Ancient Cemetery in Sudan.

A friend of a friend is interviewed here on a recent discovery about how the Magna Carta was disseminated. Specifically, she found that the Salisbury Magna Carta wasn't issued directly from the king; rather, the document was copied from an original at Salisbury by church officials and circulated from there. In the podcast, she discusses the ramifications of this finding.