Looters digging near Bodrum, Turkey, unearthed a 2,400-year-old tomb stone. “The discovery revealed that the tomb stone belongs to Hekataios’s father Mausolos. Mausolos was the satrap of Karia,” said Ozgur Ozarslan, undersecretary of the Culture and Tourism Ministry. A trial date has been set for Raphael Golb, who is accused of impersonating Dead Sea Scroll […]

In Spain’s Esquilleu Cave, anthropologists have discovered a hearth and grass piles that could represent a Neanderthal bedroom. “It is possible that the Neanderthals renewed the bedding each time they visited the cave,” said Dan Cabanes of the Weizmann Institute of Science. The beds may also have been covered with animal fur.   A medieval hospital […]