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Beheaded by colonizers, buried by descendants: France finally returns skull of Malagasy King Toera

A symbol of brutal colonialism comes home after more than a century.

Illustration: Flags of France and Madagascar.
 (Illustrative) A rendering of the hotel to be opened in Regba, Israel.

What to do when the hotel staff stop working? Antalya holidaymakers fume: No staff, no refund

Artist’s rendering of Phytosaurs

180-million-year-old ‘crocodile’ fossil unearthed in Indian desert village

The 2019 excavations in Toda Cave.

Did farming begin outside the Fertile Crescent? 9,200-year-old grains found in Uzbek cave


Europe just got its first look at the world’s oldest human ancestor

The legendary Lucy and Selam fossils are stunning crowds in Prague for only 60 days.

Australopithecus Afarensis diorama at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

Lost for centuries: Ottoman shipwreck packed with swords, pipes, and royal seals

A winter storm, a fiery end - and an underwater museum waiting to be opened.

A member of the diving team with part of the treasures found.

Scientists rebuild ancient south indian faces - and discover traces of Middle Eastern ancestry

The first facial reconstructions from Keeladi hint at forgotten migrations and surprising diversity.

Facial reconstruction of the face of a 2500-year-old skull found in excavations at Kondgai.

Farmers were digging potatoes - then they found a 3,000-year-old bronze treasure

16 kilograms of ancient metal - offered to the gods or hidden from enemies?

The finds were painstakingly uncovered from a lump over months

Buried beneath Jerusalem: a massive First Temple dam and the ancient climate crisis that sparked it

A mystery of ancient engineering revealed - was this the answer to Judah’s worst drought?

The huge uncovered dam.

Lost for over 150 years: the forgotten will that sparked a Shakespearean legal battle

A historic legal twist buried in the archives finally comes to light.

A page from the found will.

Only the second of its kind: what this ancient seal reveals about Yaroslav the Wise

Experts are calling it one of the oldest Russian seals ever found.

On both sides of the seal, Saint George is represented with a lance and a shield.

Mystery at Petralona Cave: 286,000-year-old skull near Thessaloniki upends the human family tree

Buried for hundreds of thousands of years, the Petralona cranium finally reveals its ancient secret.

The Petralona skull.

Elite roman tomb found after 2,000 years - could it reveal the identity of a forgotten power player

The grave may belong to someone close to Emperor Augustus, and it still holds its secrets.

Ruins of ancient Roman buildings and houses in the archeological Gallo-Roman site of Saint Romain en Gal.

The scientist, the storms, and the truth: how the Bermuda Triangle myth was finally debunked

Forget Atlantis - rogue waves and bad weather tell the real story.

The Bermuda Triangle on a world map.

Lost Egyptian city rises from the deep

Divers uncover sunken treasures and a forgotten harbor from ancient Canopus off the coast of Alexandria.

Illustration: Alexandria harbor.