A Buddhist shrine has been built by the army in the former capital of the mostly Hindu Tamil Tigers, one year after their rebellion was defeated in Sri Lanka. The army claims the shrine sits on an ancient Buddhist site. An unidentified Tamil historian says that “Archaeology has always been political in Sri Lanka.”   American […]

The excavation of a single building in the center of Reykjavik seems to support the tradition that the first settlers arrived in Iceland in 874 A.D. Increased cow’s milk consumption led to taller people, according to a study of human bones from the eighth century B.C. to the eighteenth century A.D.  In a 500-year-old cemetery […]