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Wednesday, August 10
August 10, 2011

A toe bone belonging to an archaic human has been found in Siberia’s Denisova Cave and turned over to Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. A tooth and a finger bone from the so-called Denisovans have already come to light. “We have no results we are ready to talk about yet,” Pääbo […]

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Tuesday, August 9
August 9, 2011

A monumental gate decorated with stone sculptures has been unearthed in southeastern Turkey at the Neo-Hittite Tayinat citadel. “The lion is fully intact, approximately 1.3 meters in height and 1.6 meters in length. It is poised in a seated position, with ears back, claws extended and roaring. A second piece found nearby depicts a human […]

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