Gold artifacts, including rings and coins, have been found in a burial mound in southeastern Bulgaria.   They’ve also found a bronze candlestick. A fifth-century skeleton was uncovered at a Byzantine cathedral in northeastern Syria.   A 16,000-year-old mother goddess figurine has reportedly been unearthed in Direkli Cave, located in southern Turkey.   The controversy continues over the […]

Global warming may have begun thousands of years ago with the slash-and-burn techniques of early farmers, according to researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. “We are proposing that much smaller earlier populations used much more land per person, and may have more greatly affected climate than current models reflect,” […]