BURGOS, SPAIN—A study employing new dating methods and techniques by researchers from the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution shows that the sediments at the Gran Dolina site ...

DRUMBEG, SCOTLAND—A shipwreck off the coast of Scotland’s northwest Highlands is one of the first to be nominated for the country’s new Historic Marine Protected Area status. Although the ...

PHOENIX, ARIZONA—Paleoanthropologist William Kimbel of Arizona State University and his colleagues have examined the base of a partial cranium of Ardipithecus ramidus, the 4.4 million-year-old ...

KØGE, DENMARK—Archaeologist Jens Ulriksen thinks that a fire was deliberately set 1,000 years ago at the Viking castle Vallø Borgring, and has requested the assistance of police dogs and a ...

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—Studies have shown that one to six percent of modern Eurasian genomes were inherited from ancient humans. Now two independent studies suggest that interbreeding may have given ...

AL-QANTARA EAST, EGYPT—Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Police discovered a limestone relief engraved with four lines of Greek text while pursuing a gang of smugglers along the Suez Canal. The ...

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO—Archaeologist Lawrence Loendorf of Sacred Sites Research was documenting rock art sites in southern New Mexico when he realized that hallucinogenic plants were growing ...

TAMPA, FLORIDA—The first set of remains of the children buried at the notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys has been identified. Records from the reform school, which closed in 2011, listed ...

LIMA, PERU—A Polish-Peruvian team was amazed to discover a pristine imperial tomb holding the remains of three queens of the Wari Empire, which ruled much of Peru from A.D. 700 to 1000 ...

MONTREAL, CANADA—A second tannery has been uncovered in the St. Henri neighborhood of Montreal. Last summer, a village of tanneries was found, but the newly uncovered site is in better condition ...

CYPRUS—Carbon-dating of material found at a site in southeastern Cyprus suggests that the settling of the island began some 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. The site, Ayia Varvara ...

DURHAM, ENGLAND—A study led by Adriano Lameira, now of Durham University, suggests that ancestral great apes may have had control of their voices. It had been thought that great apes could only ...