Did Neanderthals take refuge in Russia, near the Arctic Circle, as late as 33,000 years ago? Archaeologists have found Mousterian tools that might have been made by Neanderthals, along with the bones of woolly rhinoceros, reindeer, musk ox, brown bear, wolf, and polar fox, in the Ural Mountains.

Yesterday, the U.S. returned Peruvian textiles, pottery, and other cultural objects recovered from a man who had tried to smuggle them into Houston.

A human skull was revealed when a tree toppled in a residential yard in Gonzalez, Florida. Students from the University of West Florida are looking for the rest of the skeleton. “We are at a loss right now. We don’t know why someone would have been buried here,” said their professor, Joanne Curtin.

Construction workers uncovered a 1,700-year-old burial in southern Austria.

In South Dakota, human bones estimated to be 700 years old were unearthed during a construction project, along with a scraping tool.

Live Science reports that 15 rock art sites have been found in northern Sudan. “We asked the local people about the rock art and they said that it would be very old, before their grandfathers,” said Tim Karberg of Germany’s Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

There’s more information on the quest to discover the resting place of “Mona Lisa” in The Telegraph.

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