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Experts at the University of Ferrara in Italy claim that darker complexions were the norm throughout Europe for the vast ...

Rome authorities this month opened a new archaeological park and museum in the shadow of the Colosseum that features an original marble map of Ancient Rome that visitors can literally walk over.

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Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo–European ...

—Ancient bird with T. rex-like skull discovered in China Daniel Ksepka , a paleontologist at the Bruce Museum in Connecticut who was not involved in the study, agreed.