The USS Lexington was discovered in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Australia (by 800 km). The ship took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea and will actually be left on the ocean floor since the US Navy considers it a war grave.

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency is starting restoration of 5 Ottoman-era mosques in Albania.

President Trump signed a bill federally recognizing the Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Upper Mattaponi, Rappahannock, Monacan and Nansemond tribes of Virgina.

A 2700 year old seal belonging to a governor of the city of Jerusalem during Israel's First Temple period was discovered.

Plans are afoot to map the whole of England using LiDAR by 2020

A series of pits were discovered in Nara which dated back to the Asuka period of Japan. The pits were believed to outline a banquet hall used by the ancient peoples.

A famed archaeologist well-known for discovering the sprawling 9,000-year-old settlement in Turkey called Çatalhöyük seems to have faked several of his ancient findings and may have run a "forger's workshop" of sorts, one researcher says.

A long lost Viking settlement that featured in sagas passed down over hundreds of years, may have been located on the east coast of Canada. 

A collection of Ottoman-era coins along with some ceramics in the Çanakkale province.

In the remains of the destroyed Tomb of Younis, courtesy of ISIS, researchers have actually discovered the remains of inscriptions, carvings and other materials from the reign of the Neo-Assyrian King Esarhaddon, father of Ashurbanipal and one of the last kings of the kingdom.

The glass found in Ile-Ife last year has now been confirmed to be African in origin and nature.

The spread of the Beaker culture throughout Europe now seems to have been mainly cultural and not through migration according to a study by the Spanish National Research Council of 400 prehistoric cultures.

What a diver thought was a neat souvenir off the coast of Florida turned into the Manasota Offshore Key archaeological site.

A possible Crusader ring bearing the image of St. Nicholas was discovered by a gardener in Israel as he tended a plot in his farming community.

The island of Kisar in Indonesia contains 28 sites of cave paintings in a new exploration

Near the Greek island of Naxos 8 shipwrecks were found with amphorae.

Near Mount Hebron a Hasmonean town is slowly being found

At a site in southern Peru a new temple was discovered which researchers believe to be a Wari astronomy site

A Maya shrine was discovered in the largest underwater cave in the world, located in Mexico in the Yucatan peninsula.

A holy spring containing ayazma (water that is drank at the spring to sanctify pilgrims) has been rediscovered in Samsun.