Six million years ago, Orrorin tugenensis may have had human-like thumbs. “This calls into question hypotheses linking modern human thumb anatomy specifically to stone tool production,” commented Erin Marie Williams of George Washington University. Mollusk shells unearthed from ancient burials in Peru are offering information to scientists about the oceans, the El Nino cycle, and […]

There’s been a development in the tussle between the British Museum and the National Museum of Iran over the Cyrus Cylinder. Iran’s state-owned Press TV has reportedly published a statement by Hamid Baqaie, head of the state Cultural Heritage Organization, that “The National Museum of Iran has spent about $300,000 for the exhibition [of the […]