Shell beads were found in 82,000-year-old layers in a limestone cave in eastern Morocco. Now archaeologists have found more beads in even earlier layers of the cave. Similar shell beads have also been found in South Africa. “These new finds are exciting because they show that bead manufacturing probably arose independently in different cultures and […]

A small, 5,000-year-old tomb has been discovered near Egypt’s Lahun pyramid. “The existence of this tomb is very significant because now we know that Senusret II, the builder of the pyramid, is not the founder of this site,” said archaeologist Abdul Rahman Al-Ayedi. Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin claims in his new book that the […]