British scientists want to know who perpetrated the Piltdown Man hoax in 1912. Did the hoaxers expect that the stained skull, jawbone, and “cricket bat” would immediately be spotted as fakes? “No one did any scientific tests. If they had, they would have noticed the chemical staining and the filed-down teeth very quickly. This was clearly […]

Archaeologists are uncovering the roots of the industrial revolution in Los Angeles, California, at the site of Chapman’s Mill and the San Gabriel Mission. The artifacts include a brass religious medallion, a nineteenth-century Spanish coin, local and imported pottery, beads, and plenty of food remains. More than 60,000 artifacts have been excavated from a b […]

A Florida-based deep-sea salvage company has been ordered by the 11th U.S. circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to return nearly 600,000 gold and silver coins to Spain. The coins were recovered from the ocean’s floor off the coast of Spain in 2007. A large piece of a shipwreck washed ashore on a Lake Michigan beach. […]

Land mines that were probably buried by Japanese forces during a battle in Cebu Province have been discovered on one of the islands of the Philippines. Traces of an eighteenth-century plantation, including the foundations of the main house, a separate kitchen, outbuildings, slave quarters, outhouses, a cistern, and a well have been found in Danville, Virgini […]

Germany has returned artifacts that were looted from Afghanistan’s National Museum  during the civil war of the early 1990s. Tens of thousands of artifacts are still missing. Last year, France returned 297 royal protocol books to Korea. Now, the National Museum of Korea has made some of them available to view online. Saxon coins and a […]