Jeffrey Quilter, director of the archaeological project at Magdalena de Cao Viejo in Peru, has announced the discovery of a scrap of paper. Early 17th-century writing on it gives corresponding numbers in Spanish, Arabic numerals, and symbols from an unknown language, possibly an extinct one such as Quingnam or Pescadora. Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology […]

A few of Pakistan’s flood victims have taken refuge on the high ground at the ancient city of Amri. “There are no shady places on the road and here it’s safe, it’s high up,” explained a man named Achar. A study of mitochondrial DNA suggests that a maternal ancestor to all living humans lived some […]