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 Zapotec ceramic large effigy urn with head of Bat God, Tomb 113, Monte Alban. Image by Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D. is used under license CC0 1.0

Archaeologists uncover underground tunnels beneath Mexican city associated with the god of death

 Kiss's beginning. Image by pedrosimoes7, licensed under CC BY 2.0

New study traces origin of human kissing to ancestral ape grooming

 Evelyn (Evi) Anca

Evelyn Anca’s ‘Tales from the Amazon’

By Galia Dochin Arieli
Slightly larger brains than modern humans, and stronger, but extinct. An illustration of the Neanderthal man.

Modern man reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago

 Trepanated skull of a woman-Tumb 3 Corseaux-En Seyton-on display 6, Cantonal Museum of Archeology and History.

Skull with 'execution-style wounds' sheds light on colonial Indonesia - study

 Ancient sandals some 6,000 years old discovered at the Cueva de los Murciélagos in Albuñol, on the coast of Granada in Spain.

Ancient sandals unearthed in Spain may be the oldest footwear ever found

 Detail of Stone Age depictions of human footprints and animal tracks in Doro Nawas mountains, Namibia.

Stone age artists carved detailed human and animal rock art in Namibia

 The remains of a palace-esque structure constructed in the ancient Mayan city of Kabah

Mexico uncovers 'elite' Mayan palace used to home ancient rulers

 Aerial view of the Lower Galilee from Tel Shimron excavation site.

Rare 3,800-year-old passageway and vault found in northern Israel

By AARON PORIS/THE MEDIA LINE
 Ancient site of Dadan at Al-'Ula, June 1, 2021.

7,000-year-old animal and human remains found in Saudi Arabian stone structures

 A structure at Ek' Balam.

Has Mexico solved the mystery of the Mayan Acropolis of Ek' Balam?

 WE MUST stand together against BDS and all forms of antisemitism.

AAA's boycott of Israel is discriminatory, academic association charges

 THEN-EDUCATION minister Naftali Bennett with Israeli Prize winner, anthropologist Deborah Bernstein, at the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem in 2019.

American Anthropological Association boycott of Israel will be to its detriment - opinion

By ALEX JOFFE  , ASAF ROMIROWSKY
 King Henry I.

Can the British woman who found Richard III's remains find another king?

 Woman with long, curly, brown hair.

What advantages did curly hair give to our early human ancestors?