A polychrome mural was uncovered on the face of a temple at Peru’s Lambayeque site of Chotuna. A pit beneath the back room of an inn in Staffordshire, England, yielded an intact, seventeenth-century witch bottle. Archaeologists will see if it contains nail clippings, hair, bellybutton lint, pins, or nails intended to ward off witches.   Archaeologist […]

 Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, and his team unveiled what they say is the oldest-known member of the human family tree — a 4.4 million-year-old skeleton dubbed “Ardi,” short for Ardipithecus ramidus. “It’s not a chimp. It’s not a human. It shows us what we used to be. It bridges a gap,” […]