German scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have completed mapping the genome of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal. The team is now working on the DNA from five other individuals in order to create a library of Neanderthal genomes. An amulet made of green chrysocolla was found in the wrappings of a 4,700-year-old mummy […]

At the Neolithic site of Al-Kadada in Sudan, a team led by French archaeologist Jacques Reinold has found a 5,500-year-old burial containing the remains of a man and a woman facing each other, and two other women, two goats, and a dog buried nearby.  In Sussex, England, two men exploring farmland with metal detectors uncovered […]