News reports from Myanmar say that railroad construction continues to damage the ancient city of Mrauk U. German authorities seized 15 artifacts near the Dutch border that had been plundered from Iraq. Two of the objects were fakes.   A team from the University of South Carolina has located what remains of the CSS Peedee, a […]

Scientists have been examining the well-preserved Neanderthal bones recovered in 1994 from the Spanish cave known as El Sidrón. They think that the remains represent an extended family of 12 members who were killed and butchered. A mass grave of people killed in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, is being exhumed by archaeologists. “We […]