Mimi Lam of the University of British Columbia thinks that Acheulean hand axes, which had a standard shape, may have been an exchangeable commodity among early humans. A new book by Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution and Bruce Bradley of the University of Exeter has people talking about the peopling of the Americas.  Could […]

In 2007, a gilded bronze helmet estimated to be 2,600 years old was dredged up from the waters of Haifa Bay in Israel. The helmet may have been worn by a Greek mercenary serving an Egyptian pharaoh.  “We are planning to go back to the same site to try to locate other (archaeological) material there,” said […]