Hundreds of looted Italian artifacts returned from Switzerland have been put on display in Rome’s Colosseum. Modern-day New Yorkers are asking questions about the eighteenth-century ship unearthed at Ground Zero. Was the ship involved in the slave trade, or could it have been a whaling ship?  More photographs of the excavation are available at Monsters and […]

An eighteenth-century ship and a 100-pound anchor have been discovered at Ground Zero, the site of the former Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. The ship was probably used as landfill to expand the city into the Hudson River. Genetic analysis of humans, monkeys, and other primates had placed the split between hominoids and Old World […]