A genetic study of a 90-year-old hair sample indicates that some Aboriginal Australians are descendents of the first modern humans to migrate out Africa more than 60,000 years ago. These first explorers met Neanderthals and Denisovans along the way to Asia. Samples from different Aboriginal Australians suggest that looking for Denisovan DNA in Asian populations could […]

A massive building thought to have sheltered ships has been uncovered in Portus, the ancient port of Rome, by archaeologists from the University of Southampton and the British School at Rome. “Few Roman Imperial shipyards have been discovered and, if your identification is correct, this would be the largest of its kind in Italy or the […]