Early this morning, thieves wielding hammers broke into the Ancient Olympia Museum and stole between 60 and 70 artifacts after tying up the one employee on duty. Greece’s culture minister, Pavlous Geroulanos, has tendered his resignation over the lack of security. An Iron Age army made up of life-sized stone warriors has been reassembled from thousands of […]

Analysis of Mesolithic artifacts discovered in the Solent, a strait separating the Isle of Wight from mainland England, has shown that the area once contained a boat-building site. Food, string, flint tools, and wooden boat and structure parts have been found. A team made up of archaeologists, climate modelers, and palaeoclimatologists will look at correlations between […]