Archaeologists have returned to a mass grave in Denmark that dates to the Iron Age. The site has already yielded the bones of 200 individuals thought to have been local soldiers who were killed and thrown into the peat bog. “It was the time when the Roman Empire had its greatest expansion to the north. This […]

A radical Islamic faction has gained control of three towns in northern Mali, including Timbuktu, where they have used axes and shovels to destroy historic mausoleums that they claim do not comply with Islamic law. Timbuktu was a center of Islam in Africa in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. “It is a tragedy for Africa because […]