An eighteenth-century ship and a 100-pound anchor have been discovered at Ground Zero, the site of the former Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. The ship was probably used as landfill to expand the city into the Hudson River. Genetic analysis of humans, monkeys, and other primates had placed the split between hominoids and Old World […]

An ancient Roman canal that may have connected Portus, on the mouth of the Tiber River, with Ostia has been found using ground-sensing equipment. It had been thought that goods coming into Rome on ocean-going ships from Africa had been carried overland on the Via Flavia. “We know of other, contemporary canals which were 20-40 meters […]