At least 25 small skeletons thought to belong to insular dwarfs living between 900 and 2,800 years ago have been discovered on the Pacific islands of Palau. Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand and his colleagues say the remains are similar to those dubbed Homo floresiensis from Indonesia, with small heads and some features […]

Subway construction in the Greek city of Thessaloniki has uncovered some 1,000 graves dating between the first century B.C. and the fifth century A.D.   In 2003, donkey skeletons were discovered in a burial complex belonging to one of Egypt’s first pharaohs. Now scientists say the animals’ joint damage represents the first clear evidence of the […]