UNESCO has announced that Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas, blown up by the Taliban ten years ago, will not be reconstructed. “We have to think of the public, and they don’t need to see a fake, they need to see the reality. And these statues have been destroyed. As much as we mourn that they have been […]

Stone tools dating to 50,000 to 35,000 years ago have been discovered in Greece’s Pindos Mountains. The tools may have been used by some of the last Neanderthals in Europe. It had been thought that hunter gatherers kept to lower altitudes.  Archaeologists will look for the remains of a circus elephant rumored to have died […]