Closed for the past eight years, Spain’s Caves of Altamira will re-open to a limited number of visitors, despite scientists’ warnings that human warmth and breath damages the prehistoric paintings. As many as 3,000 people a day visited the famed caves in the 1970s. “Altamira is an asset we cannot do without,” said Miguel Angel […]

The charred remains of bees have been found within a honeycomb from the hives at Tel Rehov, Israel. Scientists say the bees had been imported from Turkey. “Local bees are notoriously difficult to handle,” states this article from Wired. More than 100 intact religious objects were uncovered in a rock hollow in northern Israel. The […]