Archaeologists in Italy unearthed the remains of what they say may be an ancient temple with components inscribed with instructions for assembly. Ikea may not be so novel after all…

Italian archaeologists claim to have found a stone enclosure which once protected the legendary “Golden Bough”.

Researchers excavating an ancient Roman cemetery made a surprising discovery when they extracted ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from one of the skeletons buried at the site: the 2,000-year-old bones revealed a maternal East Asian ancestry.
The results will be presented at the Roman Archeology Conference at Oxford, England, in March, and published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology.
According to Tracy Prowse, assistant professor of Anthropology, and the lead author on the study, the isotopic evidence indicates that about 20% of the sample analyzed to-date was not born in the area around Vagnari. …