A study of mitochondrial DNA by an international team of scientists suggests that Neanderthals almost died out in Western Europe before coming in contact with modern humans. Genetic samples of Neanderthal DNA that were more than 50,000 years old showed a high degree of genetic variation, but those DNA from samples less than 50,000 years […]

An unnamed official at Greece’s culture ministry says that the “priceless” statue recovered from a goat pen near Athens is a fake, copied from a statue unearthed at the Athens Acropolis in the nineteenth century. “The responsibility is shared by the police and the archaeologist who evaluated the statue,” the official reportedly said. Microscopic analysis […]