Paleontologist Alisa J. Winkler of Southern Methodist University says that human ancestors lived among abundant rodent populations. “Many paleoanthropologists are very interested in the faunal and ecological context in which our own species evolved,” she said. Ten ancient coins have gone missing from a locked display case at the Anuradhapura Museum in Sri Lanka.   A […]

A Greek amphora manufactured on the isle of Lesbos has been unearthed at Tel Qudadi in Israel. Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University think the fortress was built by the Assyrian empire and used as a station for trade ships traveling between Egypt and Phoenicia. A sixteenth-century ivory mask from West Africa has been pulled from […]