Forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls of the University of Birmingham used ground-penetrating radar to search the World War II death camp of Treblinka for mass graves. “All the history books state that Treblinka was destroyed by the Nazis but the survey has demonstrated that simply isn’t the case,” she said. Greece’s culture ministry announced that its […]

Thirty fragments of ivory engraved with signs of the zodiac have been unearthed from a cave in Croatia. The 2,000-year-old instrument, when complete, would have been used by an astrologer to show clients the positions of the planets and other heavenly bodies at the time of their births. Archaeologists from Brigham Young University will excavate the […]