This just blows my mind: Palaeontologists have found a Jurassic-era squid fossil that is so well preserved they were able to extract ink from it.

The fossil, thought to be 150 million years old, was found when a rock was cracked open, revealing the one-inch-long black ink sac.

A picture of the creature and its Latin name was drawn using its ink.

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have found a treasure trove of artifacts in a mound near the village of Krushare.

…Numerous objects have been discovered in the mound – a Thracian tomb, dating from the Roman Empire period – a unique golden wreath, a bronze candlestick, a glass rhyton, a huge bronze amphora, a golden bracelet, other golden objects, and glass vessels with some kind of liquid in them.

The excavations continue and more finds are expected to be discovered. All will be displayed at the Sliven museum where there are already 450 items, according to Kyupchukov.

Prehistoric rock art has been discovered by an amateur archaeologist in Perthsire, Scotland.

Mr Currie discovered a piece of rock which has more than 90 cup marks, which are circular depressions in the stone.

Some of the cups have rings around them and a number of linear grooves can also be seen, with some still showing the individual blows of craftsmens’ tools. Similar discoveries have been made in the area, but it is unusual to find so many markings on the one stone.

Crews dredging the Hudson River accidentally ripped away remnants of what was once Britain’s largest fort in Colonial America, built in 1755.

Neal Orsini said he was awoken around 4 a.m. by the sound of dredging along his riverside property in Fort Edward, 45 miles north of Albany. Orsini said he later discovered that the dredgers had torn out the riverbank, along with two wooden beams that had been part of the original fort’s waterfront bastion. A third beam was later found still buried at the site.

Orsini said crews were supposed to stay away from that stretch of riverbank because of its archaeological significance.

A 2,000 to 3,000-year-old Native American village has been found near the construction site of a bridge being built over the Nolichucky River in Tennessee.

Matt Gage, senior archaeologist with the University of Tennessee Archaeological Research Laboratory, told the Greeneville Sun that they have found evidence of food storage facilities, pottery fragments and evidence of tool-making.

The newspaper reported Saturday that Gage estimated the village dates back 2,000 to 3,000 years.