Researchers from the University of Chicago discovered an Iron Age funerary stele at the ancient city of Sam’al, in southeastern Turkey. The stele is carved with an image of the deceased, who is thought to have been cremated, and an inscription proclaiming that his soul inhabited the stone.   The New York Times also has an […]

What’s being called the world’s oldest family has been uncovered in a Stone Age cemetery in Germany. DNA testing has revealed that the 4,600-year-old skeletons of a man, woman, and two children, who had died violent deaths and were buried together, were a family. Others buried in the cemetery had also died violent deaths, leading […]