A 4,000-year-old skeleton bearing traces of leprosy has been found at Balathal, in Rajasthan, India. Part of a 300-year-old broom made of twigs was unearthed in a Benedictine monastery latrine in Germany.   Students from Washington & Lee University have excavated thousands of artifacts from the home of Edmund Bacon, who worked at Monticello as Thomas […]

 A piece of an early human jaw bone was discovered in a quarry in Casablanca, along with the bones of gazelles, antelopes, warthogs, bears, and monkeys. Homo erectus fossils have been found in the Thomas I quarry site in the past. Bones were also found in a barbershop’s basement in Albany, Indiana. Forensic anthropologist Stephen […]