An international team of scientists has studied the DNA of modern American Indian groups and has found genetic evidence that they are all descended from a single ancestral population. In addition, that population was isolated from the rest of Asia for thousands of years before moving into the New World. “While earlier studies have already […]

An eighteenth-century imperial seal that was taken from the Summer Palace in Beijing in the nineteenth century has been sold by a French auction house despite protests from the Chinese government. Public toilets thought to have been used as bunkers during the Spanish Civil War have been found beneath the streets of the town of […]