In Italy, heavy snow has damaged the Colosseum in Rome and medieval buildings in Urbino. At least 83 animal mummies, including dogs, cats, sheep, and goats, have been discovered in a chamber of what could be a temple at the ancient Egyptian holy place of Abydos. Another chamber contained a wooden statue thought to represent the […]

The expansion of agriculture as practiced by Bantu farmers may have contributed to the decline of the rainforest in Central Africa 3,000 years ago, according to a new study by a team from the French Research Institute for Exploration of the Sea. “Climate did play an important role in the arrival of agriculture. But what […]