A lakebed in central Sweden has reportedly yielded two skulls that had been mounted on wooden stakes some 8,000 years ago. “As far as we know, this discovery is unique in the world. Nothing has been found like this that is so old,” said archaeologist Fredrik Hallberg.

A genetic study conducted by evolutionary biologists from Brown University and Stanford University suggests that migrating groups of humans in the Americas didn’t interact as frequently with each other as groups in Eurasia did. The scientists speculate that the climate was easier for migrating Eurasians to manage while traveling east-west, than it was for those early Americans who traveled north-south.

Heavy rains have revealed five Mycenaean tombs in Greece.

A 300-year-old burial unearthed in northern Vietnam contained bones and a coffin preserved with lime, molasses, sand, and charcoal.

See how many of these facts you already know about “The Iceman.” It has been 20 years since the frozen mummy known as Otzi was discovered in the Italian Alps.

A federal judge of the U.S. District Court in Boston has ruled that a collection of Persian artifacts housed at Harvard University is owned by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and not Iran. Victims of terrorist attacks said to have been sponsored by the Iranian government wanted to claim the artifacts as compensation.

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