Pieces of 38-million-year-old jawbones and teeth found in Myanmar represent a new type of primate, according to paleontologist Chris Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. “This new fossil Ganlea definitely helps us argue – and we think the argument is pretty close to settled now – that when you go back […]

A small gold vase that was seized from a German auction house has been held in the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz, by museum archaeologist Michael Mueller-Karpe, who had been asked to evaluate it. Both the auction house and the Iraqi government want the artifact, thought to be 4,500 years old and stolen from a […]