A scandal involving sex, blackmail, and corruption has hit Greece’s culture ministry, prompting two suicide attempts. Archaeologist Evi Tzekou reportedly attempted to blackmail Christos Zachopoulos, the ministry’s married chief of staff, with tapes of the two of them having sex. Some allege that she did so “on behalf of businesses wanting to clear archaeologically listed […]

An intact 4,500-year-old tomb belonging to a priest named Neferinpu was unearthed in Abusir, Egypt, by Czech archaeologists. Some Pleistocene cave bears may have given humans a little more competition for food than previously thought, according to a new study of bear bones from the Carpathian Mountains. The firm Headland Archaeology has been keeping busy […]