Ian Gilligan of Australian National University agrees with the idea that Neanderthals didn’t survive the last Ice Age because they lacked good tools. He just thinks that those tools were for sewing, rather than for hunting.

Thirty-two skeletons thought to belong to soldiers killed at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691 were discovered on the grounds of a school in County Galway, Ireland. This battle effectively ended the Williamite wars with a victory for King William III over the Jacobites.

A 2,000-year-old Roman marching camp was uncovered during a waterworks project in Scotland’s lowlands.

The application of fungicide to the prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux caves has begun. A new air circulation system will also be installed while the caves are closed to researchers for the next three months.

Read what people are saying about the theft of artifacts from Bangladesh en route to an exhibit at the Guimet Museum in France.

Egypt’s State Information Service has announced the discovery of a Pharaonic mummy.

Two archaeologists have reevaluated the skeletons (many of them headless) excavated in the 1960s from a Bronze-Age burial mound in Yorkshire, England. It is now thought that bones are the remains of executed criminals, some of whose heads had been displayed on poles.

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