More than 100 pre-Columbian artifacts smuggled out of Panama by an Oregon man were returned yesterday. He had illegally dug up the artifacts while working at a U.S. military base in Panama in the 1980s. A fourteenth-century oven used to bake animal bones has been uncovered in Spain. The bones were used as an ingredient […]

Excavations in an Armenian cave have yielded what may be the oldest-known preserved human brain from the Old World. Wine-making tools and debris, skulls, metal knives, fruit seeds and grains, rope and cloth, and pottery were also found. In New Zealand, archaeologists think they have found traces of a 700-year-old building, one of the oldest […]