The $30 million restoration of the Roman Colosseum will get underway in December, funded by the billionaire Diego Della Valle. Rossella Rea, director of the Colosseum, thinks that the monument’s tilt, which was recently announced, happened in antiquity, possibly following an earthquake. “The monument is very stable, otherwise we wouldn’t have arranged for the kind […]

DNA remnants that may have originated with an unknown, extinct human cousin have been identified in the genomes of 15 living hunter-gatherers from Africa. Five of the tested individuals are Pygmies from Cameroon, and five Hadza and five Sandawe are from Tanzania. Statistical analysis suggests that the unknown species split from the ancestors of modern humans […]