A massive amphitheater used to train gladiators has reportedly been found east of Vienna.

Plans to construct a four-lane highway along the Fraser River in British Columbia could destroy two ancient archaeological sites.

Human remains excavated in the 1960s and 1970s by archaeologists from the University of Colorado and Simon Fraser University will be reburied in British Columbia at the ancient coastal village site of Namu.

National Geographic Daily News offers more photographs of the eighteenth-century ship discovered at the World Trade Center site in New York City.

In a 17-minute video, geneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology explains his research into the migration of modern humans out of Africa and their contact with Neanderthals and Denisovans.

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