Italian president Giorgio Napolitano handed over a chunk of the Parthenon Marbles removed from Greece by Lord Elgin in the nineteenth century. The fragment had been in a museum in Sicily. “This gesture is especially appreciated,” said Greek president Karolos Papoulias. A multinational team of archaeologists has been racing to salvage the sixteenth-century shipwreck discovered […]

Neanderthals ate a wider variety of foods than previously thought. Bones of seals and dolphins, and open mussel shells that may have been heated, were found in caves in Gibraltar. “They were also heating bones, not to cook the meat but to get at the marrow inside. By putting bones in fires, they were making […]