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Researchers working in the Russian High Arctic in Siberia excavated the naturally
mummified remains of a woman who lived approximately 800 years ago.
Human skeletal remains possibly belonging to Revolutionary War soldiers
have been discovered under an 18th-century house being renovated in
Danbury Connecticut.
Bones from as many as 11 unmarked graves have been found so far in an
empty lot in the Adirondack village of Lake George, 55 miles north of
Albany.
Archaeology is fascinating. It can also be sad and poignant. Finding a skeleton can lead to more details on how, why or when a person died than we sometimes find comfortable. Such was the discovery and story written about by 
Centuries before the first known case of malaria in Africa, researchers have now found signs of malaria in skeletons from Italy. Two adult remains were found to have this ancient infectious disease in their DNA. Studying ancient DNA helps scientists better understand present-day malaria. 
From the website we learn that "The 13th-century man, known as Context 958 by researchers, was among hundreds whose remains were found in a graveyard under what is now the Old Divinity School of St John’s College."
The 11,500-year-old remains of a 6 week old child found in Alaska have revealed new information on the ancestors of all Native Americans. It is believed that she is from a previously unknown genetic group who crossed the Bering Sea from Russia via a land bridge that later disappeared.
Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin went
to milk their cows in a meadow above Chandolin in the Valais canton on
August 15, 1942. They left their seven children back at home, expecting to return in a few hours. They never came back.
796 children died at Tuam, Co. Galway Ireland in the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home between 1925 and 1960. No one realized so many, far more than the norm, had died until remains were uncovered recently. The Journal has published the names and ages of all the children who died.
When the Spanish Civil War ended in 1939, many civilians had disappeared - executed and buried in unmarked mass graves. Some estimates suggest that 2,000 mass graves may hold the remains of up to 150,000 victims.
It is known that King Henry was buried at this monastery in January 1136 after his death in Normandy. The monastery is closed to the public for the dig but is expected to re-open in 2018. It will be very interesting to see what has been found when the results are made public. 
A farmer's field in Wales held the lost city of Trellech but no one knew it. At one point in history Trellech which was settled in the 13th century, was a boomtown, with as many as 10,000 inhabitants. Then it disappeared, destroyed by famine, disease and finally, a 15th century massacre.
Since 2013, a team of archeologists has been excavating Katsuren castle in Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture. Recently ten Roman coins were found at the site.
48 skeletons of men, women, and children have been found in a plague pit near an ancient monastery in rural England. 27 of the 48 ranged in age from a newborn baby to adolescents. 
The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an
American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than
200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said
Wednesday.
Graffiti from the Middle Ages found in St. Margaret's Church in Cley-Next-the-Sea, on the north coast of Norfolk in eastern England, provides insight into personal expressions
of faith in medieval England.
The Grolier Codex is a Mayan document that first appeared in the public eye in the 20th century. The codex consists of a fragment of a Maya book, containing almanacs of Venus.
In 1665, the Great Plague of London killed more than 75,000 people in the space of a year, almost a quarter of the city's population back then. It caused 8,000 deaths per week during its peak in September 1665.It was believed by many scientists and archaeologists that this Plague was in fact the Bubonic Plague but no proof existed. Skeletons dating from the 17th century were found More than 3,300 skeletons were discovered in 2015 at the site known as the Bedlam burial ground, near Liverpool Street station in London, within the New Churchyard archaeological site. You can read my earlier article about this find at Digging up Bodies of Those Buried in Bedlam
