In Beirut, protesters are demanding the resignation of Lebanon’s current Culture Minister, Gaby Layyoun, who allowed an archaeological site to be destroyed so that a skyscraper could be built. Under the previous culture minister, the site was said to be a Phoenician port and received the protection offered by law. “There is a conviction that there […]

An Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Cambridgeshire, England, has yielded the skeleton of a woman who had been buried with a cow. At first it was thought that the animal might have been a horse. “Male warriors might be buried with horses, but a woman and a cow is new to us,” said archaeology student Jake Nuttall. […]