Well, in more frustrating news, the Guardian is apparently reporting that three Dutch warships have disappeared, and three British vessels and an American submarine have been illegaly salvaged.

I don't know how reliable the Guardian is when it comes to reports like these. If it's true, it's probably one of the more reprehensible and higher profile cases of desecration and destruction of history.

• Egyptian giant crocodile mummy is full of surprises

• Novel imaging approach reveals how ancient amulet was made

• For First Nations people, effects of European contact are recorded in the genome

• Potato domestication in the Andes

• Neolithic dairy production in the Mediterranean

• Israel to launch expedition to find more Dead Sea Scrolls

• City dwellers in Middle Ages no worse off than village dwellers

• Built by the Huns? Ancient Stone Monuments Discovered Along Caspian

• Underwater Stone Age settlement mapped out

• 132-Yr-Old Lake Superior Shipwreck Found ‘In Beautiful Shape’ - Underwater video offers a stunning tour inside the wreckage of a freighter that sank in 1884.

• Ancient Doggerland diet discovered

• Why did Greenland’s Vikings disappear? New excavations produce data on ancient settlement patterns, diet, and landscape that challenge long-held views

• Digital imagery reveals secrets of 800-year-old ‘royal’ book

• Secret Passageway Found at Shakespeare's Theater

• Remote sensing technology improves small scale archaeology - /u/ucumu this might be of interest to you

• Oldest Beer Brewed from Shipwreck's 220-Year-Old Yeast Microbes

• Archaeologists discover a 1,000 year old Viking toolbox containing 14 tools at Borgring, a ring fortress in Denmark

• Shackle-Bound Skeleton Found in Etruscan Burial

• Archaeologists may have solved the mystery of African American slave's conversion to Christianity: they've discovered an intact set of objects interpreted as religious symbols — traditional ones from Africa, mixed with what they believe to be a biblical image

Pretty old news, but I just read a journal article translating some of the Xuanquan manuscripts, giving some insight into the intricacies of the Han bureaucracy. I can shoot the full PDF to folks who might not have access to JSTOR.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7817/jameroriesoci.135.3.421?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents