Italian archaeologist Maria Rosaria Belgiorno says she has uncovered the oldest temple on Cyprus, at Pyrgos-Mavroraki, where she has also found a news-making ancient perfumery. Maria Hadjicosti of the Cyprus Antiquities Department said, “We cannot dismiss the claim but we cannot verify it either.” A piece of ironware from the Kaman-Kalehoyuk site in Turkey is […]

Cut marks on 7,000-year-old human bones from Herxheim, Germany, suggest that these early farmers were cannibals. “It is impossible to establish direct proof of cannibalism. But here we have systematic, repetitive gestures, which suggest that the bodies were eaten,” said Bruno Boulestin, of Bordeaux University. The bones were found in two lines of ditches dug […]