The marble head, right arm, and lower legs of a colossal sculpture of Marcus Aurelius have been unearthed in the Roman baths at Sagalassos, in southern Turkey, where parts of statues of Hadrian and Faustina have also been found. The room was probably a gallery for sculptures of members of the second-century A.D. Antonine dynasty. […]

The melting Schnidejoch glacier in the Swiss Alps has yielded Neolithic artifacts, including an arrow quiver made of birch bark and parts of shoes and pants, suggesting that the Alps were accessible to humans 5,000 years ago. The finds correspond with calculations made by climate specialists that the Earth was going through an especially warm […]