The Turkish town of Datça sits near the archaeological site of Knidos, and it wants the British Museum to return a statue of Demeter and the eight-ton Knidos Lion, which now sits at the entrance to the museum. Two naturally mummified bodies of Tiwanaku people from Peru are the first to contain chemical evidence of […]

Russian archaeologists have claimed that baked earthenware was produced 15,000 years ago by the inhabitants of Khabarovsk. “It was the first earthenware on the globe, and though it was primitive, with plain decoration, and poorly baked, yet it was a significant landmark in the history of mankind,” said Andrei Malyavin of the Khabarovsk Archaeology Museum. […]