Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...

The fragmentary bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

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Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, ...

When volcanic disaster struck the Roman city of Herculaneum in 79 CE, a young man, believed to have been a guardian of a ...

Police in Sicily are becoming increasingly frustrated with visitors flocking to watch Mount Etna’s ongoing eruptions and are ignoring warnings and restrictions. Since Europe’s most active ...

One intriguing skeleton, however, is a 35- to 50-year-old Hun woman with an elongated skull who was buried with gold earrings at the site of Pusztataskony in Hungary in the first half of the fifth ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands ahead of a ...

Kaiadas (also spelt ‘Caeadas’) was not a cliff at all, but a cavern in the slopes of Mount Taygetus in Sparta ... to confirm that at least some of them were chained criminals. One skull was found with ...

TOKYO: Japan's Seven & i Holdings, operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, has picked Bain Capital as its preferred buyer for a stake of its non-core assets, local media reported on ...