• 22 Shipwrecks Found in Single Location in Greece

• Last-surviving cracker from Titanic is auctioned to Greek collector for £15,000 - Now referred to as world's “most valuable biscuit”

• Physician Offers Diagnoses of Oliver Cromwell—Symptoms included sharp bowel & back pains, insomnia, cold & hot fits, sore throat, cough, confusion, diarrhea, & vomiting. He thinks he had malaria & typhoid fever. Embalmers noted his overheated brain, engorged lungs, & oil in spleen.

• ISIS blows up columns in Syria's Palmyra to execute 3

• Ancient shipwrecks found in Istanbul's Yenikapı shed light on ancient ship production - 37 shipwrecks discovered underwater during Marmaray subway construction shed light on technology in ancient eras

• Hobby Lobby Under Investigation for Smuggling Artifacts From Iraq

• Hobby Lobby's Green Family being investigated for acquiring looted artifacts for Bible Museum

• Ancient Native American 'Twins' Actually Had Different Mothers

• Ancient warrior's tomb and huge treasure hoard found in Greece

• Ancient wild ox genome reveals complex cow ancestry

• A 1,500-year-old winery was recently exposed during a violent storm in Israel’s Sharon plain region, located near the Mediterranean west of the Samarian Hills, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday.

• Polish archaeologists discovered an unknown temple of Hatshepsut

• A Look at the Greatest Haul of Native American Artifacts, Ever - In a warehouse in Utah, federal agents are storing tens of thousands of looted objects recovered in a massive sting

• Man charged with spraying graffiti on California prehistoric carving

• Aboriginal female hunters aided by dingoes

• Healing Temple Excavated in Greece—Dedicated to Asclepius, god of medicine, larger-than-life figures of him & daughter Hygeia inside. Marble offering table found in 2nd room. Use of 3rd room unclear. Oldest part dates to 4th cen BC. Likely destroyed in 1st cen AD by earthquake & rebuilt.

• Arctic Explorers Uncover (& Eat) 60-Yr-Old Food Stash - Tins of food hidden in Greenland’s Arctic desert were a delicious surprise. They discovered army rations likely left in 1960's by team that discovered Centrum Sø Lake. They tasted & savored every piece, even the meat.

• An Egyptian panel of experts has approved using radar to search for a hidden chamber in King Tutankhamun's tomb, which may be the burial place of Queen Nefertiti

• Hazelnut shells found at Skye Mesolithic site

• Bronze Age plague wasn't spread by fleas

• The earliest known abecedary

• Conservators Begin to Repair Tutankhamun’s Mask—A yr ago, beard was knocked off by museum employee working on lighting & hastily reapplied with epoxy. Team scraping epoxy off. Will reattach it after studying how originally placed. “We don’t know how deep the glue went inside the beard.”

• Hiker Discovers Viking Sword in Norway—A hiker sits down to rest finds 1,200-yr-old sword in very good condition, missing only its grip. “When the snow has gone, we will check where the sword was found. If we find several objects, or a tomb, perhaps we can find the story behind the sword.”

• Floors from 18th-C. Mansion Unearthed in England—Traces found of oldest part of Duke of Newcastle’s Clumber House, destroyed by fire in 1879. Finds include system of cellars for beer & wine. “Floors look as though they were laid yesterday.”

• Ancient civilization: Cracking the Indus script.

Be sure to check out the new (launched yesterday) PBS/NPR American Archive of Public Broadcasting for all your burning needs for stuff like vintage broadcasts about local voter issues and Bill Gates in a very baggy sweater.

I'm familiar with the book list of course, but is there a reading list of the key archaeology papers?

The news about Utah reminds me of a Doctor Who episode of New Who