Back in the 1970s, when archaeologists excavated a skeleton from an ancient graveyard in Belgium, they thought they had found a typical Roman burial. But during a recent reexamination of the bones ...

“If preservation is poor or the remains are highly fragmentary, you can learn less from those than, say, a well-preserved skeleton, where you can take ... the cemetery's history is the city-county ...

Scientists have found that a nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus fossil, named Little Foot, is around 3 million years old. Australopithecus are the ape-man ancestors of humans.