The bones of five individuals that could represent a previously unknown human species have been discovered in southern China. The bones have been dated to between 11,500 and 14,500 years old. “We’re trying to be very careful at this stage about definitely classifying them,” said Darren Curnoe of the University of New South Wales in Australia. […]

Antiquities collector Oded Golan has been found not guilty of forging an artifact by a Jerusalem court. Scholars have not been able to agree on the authenticity of the so-called “James Ossuary,” which Golan claims to have purchased from Arab traders in East Jerusalem. A rare wooden statue of a pharaoh discovered last summer in Abydos may […]