A 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis foot bone has been discovered among the remains of some 35 individuals in Ethiopia. The long bone suggests that “Lucy” and her kind had well-formed arches and walked with an upright gait, and that they could have left the 3.7 million-year-old footprints at Laetoli in Tanzania. Scientists looking for fossilized […]

Five marble heads and a statue of Zeus dating to the third century A.D. were unearthed at the site of an ancient villa in southeastern Rome. Archaeologists think the statues represent members of the imperial dynasty of Septimius Severus.    The Guardian reports that since the fall of Tunisia’s president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian […]