Yesterday at Sagalassos in Turkey, archaeologists uncovered the colossal portrait head of the Roman empress Faustina, wife of the emperor Antoninus Pius, who ruled from A.D. 138 to 161. Scholars and soldiers continue to monitor archaeological sites in Iraq. In June, a team of archaeologists visited eight sites with the British Army. “I was reasonably […]

Four 8,000-year-old skeletons are the oldest so far to be unearthed during excavations for Istanbul’s new subway. The project has also uncovered 32 ships, and walls that may have been the first city walls of Istanbul. The skull of a giant kangaroo found in Tasmania has been dated to 41,000 years ago, 2,000 years after […]