Archaeologists in Libya have reported to their colleagues that their nation’s antiquities are safe, for the most part. “The antiquities in the major sites are unscathed. But a few sites in the interior sustained minor damage and are in need of assessments,” said Hafed Walda of King’s College London. A palace discovered at the Plan de […]

Nature News reports that palaeontologist Christopher Lepre found stone axes and cruder stone tools together at a 1.76-million-year-old site in Kenya. The discovery may help explain who made similar types of stone tools found outside of Africa. Australian bushranger Ned Kelly’s bones have been identified in a mass prison grave using DNA analysis. Kelly was hanged for […]