The partial skeleton of a 3.6-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis male has been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region. Dubbed “Kadanuumuu,” which means “big man,” he would have been about two feet taller than 3.2-million-year-old Lucy, and he had a nearly humanlike gait. “Whatever we’ve been saying about afarensis based on Lucy was mostly wrong. The skeletal framework […]

The planning and building committee for the city of Jerusalem has approved plans for a controversial archaeological park that will require 22 Arab homes to be demolished in the neighborhood of Al-Bustan. There are several more legal stages to go before work begins. Austrian researchers working in the modern Egyptian town of Tel al-Dabaa have […]