Police have recovered a sixth-century B.C. statue hidden in a goat pen near Athens. The four-foot tall statue depicts a young woman of the kore type, with elaborately braided hair and an ankle-length gown. Her extended left arm is broken. Two men have been arrested, and detectives are trying to determine where the statue was originally […]

An international team of geneticists compared DNA from modern cows with DNA extracted from the bones of domesticated cattle excavated from archaeological sites in Iran. The scientists concluded that all modern domesticated cows are descended from a single herd of aurochs that lived 10,500 years ago. “A small number of cattle progenitors is consistent with the […]