One of the largest slave graveyards in the world is being excavated on the island of St. Helena, in preparation for airport construction. Many of the 10,000 people buried here had been found dead in slave ships by British Royal Navy patrols between 1840 and 1874.   Excavation of a village at the site of a […]

 Experts are busy decoding the clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform that were discovered in an Assyrian palace in southeastern Turkey last summer. “You’re really getting at the nitty gritty of the management of the empire through these kind of records,” commented Melinda Zeder of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The Independent, […]