Two red-granite statues have been unearthed in Luxor, Egypt, near the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III. Last month, archaeologists found a colossal carving of the pharaoh’s head.

A seventh-century building in northern Israel has been re-identified as the Al-Sinnabra palace, used by the Umayyad caliphs during the winter months.  

Modern humans and Neanderthals did not coexist on the Iberian Peninsula, according to the results of a new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution. In a large-scale excavation of the Cova Gran site, researchers from the Centre for Prehistoric Archaeological Heritage Studies of the University of Barcelona found that archaeological materials left by Neanderthals and modern humans were separated by sterile strata of sediment.  

Here’s an introduction to the mummies of China’s Tarim Basin.   

Australian Private Harry Willis is among the soldiers identified by DNA samples from the mass graves at the World War I battlefield at Fromelles, France. His story is told in The Age.

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