Science Daily

The cave bear started to become extinct in Europe 24,000 years ago, but until now the cause was unknown. An international team of scientists has analysed mitochondrial DNA sequences from 17 new fossil samples, and compared these with the modern brown bear. The results show that the decline of the cave bear started 50,000 years ago, and was caused more by human expansion than by climate change.

Cyprus Mail

ANCIENT Cypriots were worshippers, not only of the Greek gods and goddesses, but also of faceless male and female deities, latest finds at the Idalion site have revealed.

Times and Transcript

In a huge hayfield straddling the border of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia not too far from Moncton, some long buried relics of history have been uncovered by participants in a public dig program at the Beaubassin and Fort Lawrence National Historic Sites. And lead archaeologist Charles Burke is hoping to keep digging for the past in the years to come.

BBC

A Bronze Age henge has been discovered on land near Letchworth.

BBC

Tuesday marks the 1,600th anniversary of one of the turning points of European history the first sack of Imperial Rome by an army of Visigoths, northern European barbarian tribesmen, led by a general called Alaric.