In Spain’s Esquilleu Cave, anthropologists have discovered a hearth and grass piles that could represent a Neanderthal bedroom. “It is possible that the Neanderthals renewed the bedding each time they visited the cave,” said Dan Cabanes of the Weizmann Institute of Science. The beds may also have been covered with animal fur.   A medieval hospital […]

A wreck in Maryland’s Patuxent River could be the USS Scorpion, which fought the British during the War of 1812 as part of the Chesapeake Flotilla. When the flotilla was trapped on the Patuxent, Commodore Joshua Barney destroyed his ships to keep them from falling into British hands. The path to Washington, D.C., however, was […]