A skull containing a yellow, brain-shaped substance has been found in a pit on prehistoric farmland in York, England. “This could be the equivalent of a fossil. The brain itself would generally not survive. Fatty tissues would be feasted on by microbes,” said Philip Duffey, a neurologist who examined the skull with CT scans.   More […]

A hoard of 4,500-year-old copper weapons was recovered from a beach in northern Greece.  Excavations continue at the first-century A.D. Villa delle Vignacce. The villa was home to Quintus Servilius Pudens, a friend of Emperor Hadrian. “It’s very unusual to find such well-preserved remains in Rome because most of the sites have usually been plundered […]