The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art is returning to the Indian government three bronzes after research indicated that the objects were removed from their original sites illegally.

In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA testing has revealed that one of them had a rare genetic condition.

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Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...