New research on 40,000-year-old fossils from the Sima de la Palomas, Spain, shows that they were clearly Neandertals. These “last Neanderthals” were not swept away by modern humans, but they did exhibit some modern human features. Archaeologist Gertrude Bell was instrumental in creating a pro-British government in Iraq in 1917. BBC News remembers her as […]
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