North America was populated by migrants traveling by both land and sea, according to a new genetic study published in Current Biology. A team led by population geneticist Antonio Torroni of the University of Pavia suggests that two genetically separate groups, who spoke different languages, left Beringia at about the same time by different routes. […]

A mummy discovered in Egypt last year is thought to be Queen Seshestet, mother of a Sixth Dynasty pharaoh. Her burial chamber was ransacked in antiquity, but archaeologists found her sarcophagus, linen-wrapped body parts, pottery, and her gold finger wrappings. Turkey’s Ilisu dam project has been suspended for 180 days by German, Swiss, and Austrian […]