A rare statue of Roman emperor Lucius Verus was among some looted artifacts recently recovered by Italian police in Rome. A sculpture of Faustina, wife of Antoninus Pius, was also returned to Italy. It had been stolen from a theater south of Rome in 1961 and ended up in the possession of an American collector. […]

Russian scientists are studying “Lyuba,” the four-month-old mammoth discovered last year in the Arctic. “This is the best preserved specimen not only of the mammoth but of any prehistoric animal,” said Alexei Tikhonov of the Russian Academy of Science’s Zoological Institute. Silt in Lyuba’s airways and digestive system suggest that she drowned.   A cave containing […]