Iran at odds with France over ancient artworks
Iran has declared a cultural war with one of the world's largest museums, the Louvre in Paris, which it accuses of reneging on a...
More on stone age transsexual excavated in Prague
The male body – said to date back to between 2900-2500BC – was discovered buried in a way normally reserved only for women of...
Grave of stone age transsexual excavated in Prague
Czech archaeologists have discovered what they are calling a “third gender grave” — a unique late Stone Age grave of a transsexual or gay...
Well dating back to 4,300 BC unearthed in Abkhazia
Archaeologists have discovered an antique well, dating back to 4,300 BC in the center of Sukhumi, on land allocated for construction of the Russian...
Tuberculosis followed the fur trade
Beaver hats may no longer be chic, but the tuberculosis bacterium has held on to one remnant from the 18th century Canadian fur trade:...
How to excavate a human burial: Lessons from a dinosaur expert
It is one of the most poignant scenes ever captured in the human fossil record—a woman and two children buried together some 5,300 years...
