New trail serves as reminder of tribe's losses
When Wendy Williford speaks of how Amanda's Trail got its name, it's difficult not to be impacted by this true tale of the reservation years. In the 1850s and '60s, the U.S. government, after creating the Alsea Sub-agency in Yachats, forcibly marched...
 4.4K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 681.0 Stone stumps readers
It's a primitive anchor, some said. It was used in nautical applications. It was a weight for tossing a line, possibly one used by local Native Americans. Last week's mystery item posed a challenge for many readers who made guesses on how it might ha...
1.3K - Apr. 29, 2009; scored 431.0 Italy dig unearths 'vampire' in Venice
ROME (AP) An archaeological dig near Venice has unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws evidence, experts say, that she was believed to be a vampire. The unusual burial is thought to be the result of an a...
3.4K - Mar. 14, 2009; scored 681.0 Medieval remains of decapitated girl to get burial
LONDON (AP) The funeral of a teenage girl will finally be held this month 700 years after her decapitated body was buried in unconsecrated ground outside an English church in a gruesome medieval ritual. A horse-drawn carriage will carry her remains...
1.4K - Mar. 7, 2009; scored 431.0 Rare sea otter sighted at Depoe Bay
DEPOE BAY (AP) It s confirmed. A furry, flipper-footed critter seen swimming near the sea wall at Depoe Bay is a sea otter a member of an endangered species that went extinct off the Oregon coast in 1906. Attempts to reintroduce sea otters to the...
1.4K - Feb. 21, 2009; scored 431.0 Newly found tomb in Egypt houses 30 ancient mummies
CAIRO A storeroom housing about two dozen ancient Egyptian mummies has been unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb during the latest round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara south of Cairo, archaeologists said today. The tomb was loca...
2.8K - Feb. 9, 2009; scored 1000.0 Shipwrecks starting to show along South Coast
FLORENCE (AP) Beachcombers find endless treasures along the Oregon Coast, from seashells to shipwrecks. State archaeologist Dennis Griffin says more ships may emerge from the sands this year along the stretch of Pacific coast long known as the Pac...
0.7K - Jan. 5, 2009; scored 431.0 Researchers believe Marines are entombed on Tarawa
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) A Florida man s quest to find hundreds of U.S. Marines buried anonymously after one of World War II s bloodiest battles could lead to the largest identification of American war dead in history. Researchers used ground-penetrati...
4.9K - Nov. 27, 2008; scored 431.0 Pyramid discovered in Egypt
SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) Egypt s chief archaeologist has announced the discovery of a 4,300-year-old pyramid in Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis and burial site of the rulers of ancient Memphis. The pyramid is said to belong to Queen Sesheshet, the mot...
0.8K - Nov. 11, 2008; scored 431.0 | 
