A tooth was removed from the head of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy, as the first step in an effort to extract DNA from its pulp. “All of us were extremely concerned about not disturbing the head, because this is really a one-of-a-kind artifact,” said Dr. Paul H. Chapman of Massachusetts General Hospital. “A royal building […]

 Pavlopetri, a submerged Mycenaean town off the coast of Greece, is 1,200 years older than previously thought. “It is a rare find and it is significant because as a submerged site it was never re-occupied and therefore represents a frozen moment of the past,” said Elias Spondylis of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. An Anglo-Greek […]