Anthropology

A recreation of a Neanderthal man's face is turning heads all over the world - not only for its strong resemblance to our own physiognomy today but also because of the good humor it exudes, as much as 70,000...

The Tollund Man, an unfortunate victim of human sacrifice in Iron Age Denmark, is a "bog body," one of a group of remarkably-well preserved ancient mummies.

Linguists and experts in the ancient world have long been puzzled by the absence of a distinct word for the color in Ancient Greek.

An anthropological DNA research project which sequenced the genes of ancient populations found that modern Greeks are genetically similar.

The impressions had been made by hominids on Crete 5.6 million years ago, making them by far the oldest footprints ever discovered in Europe.

A new museum in Vergina has received some 4.5 million euro funding approval from the EU and is set to open in 2017 under the proclamation, "Aigai: The first city of the Macedonians, from Hercules to Alexander the Great...