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Netherlands: They rebuild the face of the first Dutch Neanderthal You can now gaze into the crinkly eyes of “Krijn,” a young Neanderthal man who had a tumour growing on his skull when he died up to 70,000 years ago. In 2001, an amateur palaeontologist found a piece of Krijn’s skull while sifting through sediments …

2,000-year-old Roman sewage system unearthed in southwestern Turkey The Anadolu Agency reports that a Roman-era sewerage system was discovered in southwestern Turkey’s ancient city of Tripolis by a team of researchers led by Bahadir Duman of Pamukkale University.  The excavation uncovered a 2,000-year-old sewage system in southwestern Turkey. The Roman-era sewage system, 160 centimetres (5.2 …

‘I don’t care’: text shows modern poetry began much earlier than believed New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that “stressed poetry,” the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2nd Century CE, 300 years earlier than previously thought. In its shortest version, the anonymous …

Gigantic Hand of Hercules could be From the Tallest Marble Statue Ever Made One glance at the giant hand is enough to recognize it was once part of a true masterpiece created by ancient builders. The hand belonged most likely to a mᴀssive statue of Hercules himself. How and why the giant statue of Hercules …