POLITICS-BALKANS:  Croat Minister Makes a 22,000-Year-old Case
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BELGRADE, Oct 4 (IPS) - A dubious joint venture between science and  politics has resumed with new claims that Croats are the oldest  people in the Balkans.
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Jakarta - A leading Indonesian scientist on Saturday challenged the widely publicised theory that fossilised bones found on the eastern island of Flores were from a previously unknown species of human.
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A stone slab found bears 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars, say archaeologists.
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Description: Researchers report this week that they have found the remains of a group of small hominids that may be a new species of human -- one that may have existed on an island near Indonesia as late as 14,000 years ago.
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An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece.
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Science & environment: Fossilised skull thought to date back up to 100,000 years, a period long a mystery to scientists
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Experts have determined that the remains of about 60 people found at a construction site in central Germany were from long before World War II, police said Friday.
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Archaeologists in South Carolina announced radiocarbon dates suggesting that people made tools near the Savannah River about 50,000 years ago.
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The case isn't closed yet, but modern humans are looking awfully guilty in one of the biggest whodunits in prehistory: the case of the demise of the Neanderthals.
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Our heavy-browed competitors lasted 2,000 years longer than previously thought, a new cave find suggests&#151;though not everyone agrees on the dates.
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BELGRADE, Oct 11 (IPS) - Ten years after the wars in the Balkans left a  quarter of a million dead, reconciliation moves are still waiting  for the 'truth' to come out first.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Scientists have found well-preserved fossils of a new dinosaur species that lived 225 million years ago in southern Brazil but had its closest relatives in what is now Europe, Brazilian paleontologists said yesterday.
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December 28 2004 1800CET Updated December 28 2004 1930CET- In a press conference, the Foreign Affairs Minister Dr.
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The highest U.N. court rules on Monday whether Serbia committed genocide through the killing, rape and ethnic cleansing that ravaged Bosnia during the 1992-95 war, in one of the biggest cases in its 60-year history.
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WARSAW, Jan 16  Poland's Defence Ministry today denied charges that Polish troops in Iraq had damaged the site of ancient Babylon, one of the world's most famous archaeological treasures, while using ...
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Bulgarian Archaeologists said Monday they finally unearthed the largest so far tomb from the civilisation of the Thracians, tribes that populated the Balkans since the Bronze Age till the early Middle Ages.
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Beginning about 700,000 years ago, ancient humans were driven off the British Isles seven times by the approach of cold weather, according to new archaeological evidence.