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Study of the Neanderthal Shanidar A from Iraqi Kurdistan in Scientific Reports
There is a popular story that a student once asked Margaret Mead what she considered the first sign of civilisation, expecting to hear about clay pots, fish hooks or grinding stones, and that Mead answered: a healed femur. An animal with a broken thigh bone cannot run from a predator,
Age of the oldest human footprints in North America at White Sands park refined
White Sands National Park in New Mexico preserves human footprints that scientists regard as the oldest evidence of people in North America. A new study has refined their age: between 23,500 and 21,700 years. This was the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, that is, the period when
Emmanuel Macron's term as President of France ends on 13 May 2027
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Fragments of two colossal statues of Ramesses II found in the Nile Delta
A local resident of the Gharbia Governorate in the Nile Delta discovered an inscribed granite block on his land and reported it to the authorities. Archaeologists began work at the site and found fragments of two colossal statues. The first statue survives in the form of a head about one