Breakthrough in the search for King Richard III as archaeologists find 'tantalising clues' to the location of his body (and it really could be under a council car park in Leicester) . Mail online

Azerbaijan has found 40 new archaeological sites. ABC.az

Scientists sequence the genome of Neandertal relatives, the Denisovans. Eurekalert
 
The Chaste Erotics of Marie d’Oignies and Jacques de Vitry. Medievalists.net

The Chickahominy look back. Heritage Daily

Vasa – the lopsided warship. Past Horizons

A second season of excavations at Britain’s biggest Iron Age hill-fort has uncovered remains of Roman weaponry, and the site of the first “ham stone” house. Heritage daily

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