Biologist Jared Taglialatela of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center said, “If we really want to talk about the big differences between humans and chimps – they’re covered in hair and we’re not.” Taglialatela and his team made PET scans of chimp brains while they were communicating, and found a similarity with human brains.

Another royal tomb may have been discovered in Ibb. The Yemen Observer was not able to confirm the reports, but speculates that the Bureau of Archaeology may be trying to keep the news under wraps.  

Historic buildings and Hindu and Sikh temples in Peshawar are collapsing from neglect or being razed to make way for shopping centers.  

In Lebanon, a “30-year-old mountain of filth” sits just a few yards away from the tourist sites of the ancient Phoenician port city of Sidon.  

Artifacts in the museum at Tel Hatzor National Park were damaged during an earthquake two weeks ago. The museum has been closed due to a lack of visitors.  

Beeswax continues to wash up on the shores of Oregon more than 300 years after Spanish galleons carrying tons of the material disappeared. The wax was used to make candles for Catholic churches.  

Peruvian officials have again traveled to Yale University to review an inventory of Inca artifacts from Machu Picchu. Some say a final agreement on the return of the artifacts will be reached between the two sides by the end of March, while others are critical of the negotiations. “Nobody from Peru has ever been allowed to do this inventory with the boxes opened,” Eliane Karp de Toledo, former first lady of Peru, told the press.  

In Greece, two men were arrested on suspicion of trying to sell an illegally excavated, Roman-period statue.  

Poet Seamus Heaney was one of many who spoke on BBC Radio Ulster about the construction of the M3 motorway through the Tara Skreen valley.  

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opens in theaters on May 22, but the movie’s promotion schedule is well underway. This article is about marketing the swashbuckling archaeologist to younger ticket buyers online.

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