A first-century wall mosaic depicting Apollo has been discovered in a tunnel built to help support Trajan’s Baths in Rome. Modern humans may have outnumbered Neandertals ten to one, according to a new study of archaeological sites in southwestern France. “These data imply that numerical supremacy alone must have been a powerful if not overwhelming factor” […]

German art historian Bert Praxenthaler continues the quest to rebuild Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. He says that up to half of the pieces of the statues have been recovered from the rubble. Tell Qarqur, located in northwest Syria, was occupied for 10,000 years, and even grew at a time when […]