There's gold in them thar hills! Or at least in the farmlands of Kentucky, if you're the lucky farmer who discovered a haul of more than 700 Civil War-era coins buried in his cornfield. The "Great Kentucky Hoard" includes hundreds of U.S. gold pieces dating to between 1840 and 1863, in addition to a handful of silver coins. But that's not the only thing we unearthed this week — there was a giant 300,000-year-old hand ax, a World War II aircraft in Ukraine, an opulent Bronze Age tomb and an elite Roman man who may have come to a grisly death. As if that weren't enough, a hidden "underworld" linked to the Zapotec "cult of the dead" was discovered beneath a church in Mexico.
Back aboveground, we had a baby volcano emerging in Iceland, spiders with bizarre feeding behaviors, a "gravity hole" in the Indian Ocean and a $500,000 chunk of "floating gold."
