Helen Donoghue, a specialist in infectious disease at University College London, examined tissue samples from the mummy of an Egyptian woman known as Irtyersenu. She determined that the woman died of tuberculosis, and not from the growth on her ovary, as had been thought in 1825.   Seven Roman statue bases were found during a new […]

 Paleoanthropologists from the University of New England think that it may be necessary to reclassify Homo floresiensis. Peter Brown, who originally named the Hobbits, and colleague Tomoko Maeda, write that it is possible that the Hobbits left Africa “before the evolution of the genus Homo,” in a paper due to be published in a special […]