Leftovers of an aurochs cooked over an open fire and eaten 7,700 years ago have been discovered in the Netherlands. The hunters roasted and ate the marrow from the leg bones and the ribs right away, then probably carried large hunks of meat and the animal’s skin back to their settlement. “The animal was either caught in a pitfall trap and then clubbed on the head, or shot with a bow and arrow with flint point,” added Wietske Prummel of the University of Groningen.

More than 100 painted limestone blocks have been uncovered in Egypt at the San El-Hagar archaeological site. The building blocks had been reused to construct a retaining wall.

In Ireland, construction workers uncovered human bones at what could be a ninth-century Viking burial ground. Archaeologists have been called in to investigate.

Thousands of artifacts and several burials thought to date to the Philippine Iron Age have been found on the island of Cebu.

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