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.
A couple of weeks ago I answered a question about ancient coin collecting. Earlier this week an ancient coin collection was found. The main question the average reader might ask is how do we know this is an actual collection and not just a hoard like the countless others and I think that can be neatly determined by this little fact;
The cache contains one or two coins from every year between 135 and 126 B.C., a collection familiar to modern day hobbyists.
Not sure if everyone's seen this or not, but LIDAR has just turned up an empire in Cambodia:
The Australian archaeologist Dr Damian Evans, whose findings will be published in the Journal of Archaeological Science on Monday, will announce that cutting-edge airborne laser scanning technology has revealed multiple cities between 900 and 1,400 years old beneath the tropical forest floor, some of which rival the size of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh.
This Atlantic article on the provenance of the "Jesus' Wife" papyrus fragment is wild: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-unbelievable-tale-of-jesus-wife/485573/