A Roman-era sarcophagus was discovered in Syria, at the ancient city of Daraa. A gold ring found near the occupant’s skull may have once hung by a chain from his or her ear. Sarah Parcak of the Laboratory for Global Health at the University of Alabama has used satellite images to spot hundreds of new […]

A study of genetic drift on the X chromosome indicates that men significantly outnumbered women on the migration “Out of Africa” some 60,000 years ago. Alon Keinan of the Harvard Medical School says that his team’s findings are “in line with what anthropologists have taught us about hunter-gatherer populations in which short distance migration is […]