DNA analysis of a finger bone discovered in southern Siberia suggests that another ancient human relative lived in Asia some 30,000 years ago. This group has been dubbed the Denisovans. Geneticist David Reich of Harvard Medical School talks about the Denisovans on NPR.  In the wake of museum curator Marion True’s trial in Italy on charges […]

News reports from Myanmar say that railroad construction continues to damage the ancient city of Mrauk U. German authorities seized 15 artifacts near the Dutch border that had been plundered from Iraq. Two of the objects were fakes.   A team from the University of South Carolina has located what remains of the CSS Peedee, a […]