Here’s a little more information on the Roman artifacts that were uncovered in Rione Terra, in southern Italy. There’s also a photograph of a marble head of Emperor Titus. Facedown burial appears to have been a widespread practice intended to shame the dead, according to a review of the research on more than 200 grave […]

Construction workers discovered a 4,000-year-old Canaanite tomb in Bethlehem. They called archaeologists, who excavated the intact burial of two individuals. Traces of wild barley were found in an 11,300-year-old granary uncovered in Jordan. Grain was domesticated in the Middle East about 1,000 years later. Neanderthals wore tailored clothing and dried and cooked meat, according to […]