Scientists have sequenced mitochondrial DNA taken from a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal bone. “For the first time, we’ve built a sequence from ancient DNA that is essentially without error,” said Richard Green of the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Who would win the most Olympic events: Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, or Australopithecus afarensis?   The fourteenth-century palace of the […]

A complete chariot was discovered at a Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, and a separate pit yielded two horses and bronze and leather objects that may have been harnesses. Be sure to click on the photograph to see more images of the chariot and other artifacts from the 1,900-year-old tomb. Ten people will be charged […]