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Playing Cards Found in Mongol Invasion Shipwreck Off Japan
Die uncovered in a Mongol shipwreck off Takashima Island, Japan

TAKASHIMA ISLAND, JAPAN—The Mainichi reports that another thirteenth-century shipwreck has been discovered off Takashima Island, after two others had previously b...


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Researcher Argues Famous British Iron Age King Was Really a Queen
Gold coin of Verica depicting a naked horse-riding female warrior with a spear and the inscriptions VIR (for Verica) and REX

BOURNEMOUTH, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Bournemouth University, Ir...


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Sacrificed Inca Children Were Given Drugs, Alcohol Prior to Death
This Andean figurine with bulges in its cheeks may depict the chewing of coca leaves during the capacocha ritual.

ANDES MOUNTAINS, SOUTH AMERICA—The capacocha was one of the most sacred religious rituals in the Inca Empire. During the ceremony, young children were sacrificed, often at mountain shrines high in the Andes Mountains, to mark sig...


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Neolithic Cemetery Excavated Near Paris
Menhir, Champigny-sur-Marne, France

CHAMPIGNY, FRANCE—La Brújula Verde reports that a 6,500-year-old cemetery has been discovered in northern France near the Marn...


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Code for 16th-Century Combination Lock Cracked

CARDIFF, WALES—The internal structure of a brass combination lock recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Wales has been examined with micro-CT scanning technology by researchers from Amgueddfa Cymru (Museum Wales) and Cardiff University, according to a statement released by


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