Czech archaeologists have rediscovered a Meroe-period temple that had been lost to the desert sands of Sudan in the nineteenth century. Riddles written in the ancient Akkadian language have been translated from a copy of a 3,500-year-old clay tablet from southern Mesopotamia by Nathan Wasserman of Hebrew University, and Michael Streck of the Altorientalisches Institut at Universität […]

“What modern people are doing with online social networks is what we’ve always done—not just before Facebook, but before agriculture,” said James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego. By studying the Hadza, who live as hunter gatherers in Tanzania, Fowler and Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School found that social networks could have contributed […]