Antiquities have been taken off the market when investigators and scholars recognize them from archives of photographs seized by the police. These thousands of pictures had been taken by dealers and had been intended to be shown to potential buyers. Extensive wood and leather remains of posts, shoes, and tents from the Roman period were […]

A new genetic study suggests that humans interbred with an extinct species, perhaps either the Neanderthals or Homo heidelbergensis. Genetic anthropologist Keith Hunley of the University of New Mexico examined the genetic diversity of 2,000 people living around the world. He thinks that the first occurrence of interbreeding may have taken place 60,000 years ago, […]