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After more than 160 years of searching to understand the fate of the English explorer Sir John Franklin, here are some exclusive images of HMS Erebus.

Breaking News! Parks Canada underwater archaeologists confirm the discovery of one of the Franklin’s lost ships. The remains of the ship were found in the southern Victoria Strait over the past week! http://ow.ly/BhxXS

New radiocarbon dates on elk bones ritually deposited in a Danish bog show they were left there by a still-unknown Mesolithic people over the course of several centuries. http://archaeology.org/news/2294-140709-denmark-bog-bones

Storms washing away sand from a beach in Cornwall, England, have revealed the remains of a WWI-era German sailing ship. http://archaeology.org/ne/1860-140226-cornwall-germany-ship

Sixty medieval skeletons have been found beneath the Uffizi Museum in Florence. http://archaeology.org//1843-140220-medieval-graves-found-

Mark your calendars! Public Archaeology Symposium with Tim Schadla-Hall (University College London) and other noted speakers. Registration is free but required - details on the poster. Please help spread the word about this event.

More new Vinland Saga interpretations at: http://lavalhallalujah.wordpress.com//karlsefni-goes-to-vi and https://www.facebook.com/lavalhallalujah

Our next free public lecture will take place on Wednesday, February 19, 2014 at the Nova Scotia Archives at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Catherine Cottreau-Robbins, Nova Scotia Museum The Loyalist Plantation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Informing Early African-Nova Scotian Settlement"

Archaeologists digging at the site of a medieval church in Rome have uncovered what may be the city's oldest known temple, dating to the seventh century B.C. http://archaeology.org/news/1772-140129-rome-temple-earliest