An analysis of mitochondrial DNA in present-day African populations suggests that two groups of Homo sapiens may have been isolated from one another between 150,000 and 40,000 years ago. “They came back together again during the Late Stone Age–driven by population expansion,” said Spencer Wells, director of the Genographic Project. A second article on the […]

The occupants of three royal Macedonian tombs excavated in 1977 have been re-identified by Eugene N. Borza, professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University, and other researchers. One tomb, thought to belong to the father of Alexander the Great, could actually belong to his half brother. Thus, the six-foot scepter found within the tomb, in addition […]