Who was Altamura Man? The most complete Neanderthal fossil ever found sits at the bottom of a sinkhole in southern Italy, where scientists have studied it for years. In 1993, cave explorers entered a ...
Crop Star: “It was never in the culture here to look at wheat as something you would boil and distill,” Altamura cofounder Frank Grillo says of Italy's Puglia region. Blue-haired Frank Grillo was in ...
Late last week, crews were still bustling to put the final details on Altamura, located on the first floor of the Magnolia Mansion. The Italian restaurant from Jack Petronella of Manhattanjack debuts ...
About 150,000 years ago – give or take 20,000 – a guy fell into a well. Last month he made science history. The Altamura Man became the oldest Neanderthal to have his DNA extracted by researchers. It ...
Self-proclaimed pizza connoisseurs take notice: Altamura Pizza isn’t your conventional pizza place, but the pie is as authentic as it gets. Everything is either homemade or imported and you’ll be left ...
Scientists in Italy have extracted the oldest ever DNA sample to be taken from a Neanderthal. Calcium formations on ‘Altamura Man’ - a skeleton found in a cave in 1993 - suggest he was 128,000 to ...
From the start it was out to do something different. In a grand antebellum mansion in the Lower Garden District, under the low rafters of a ground floor space stylishly renovated along the lines of a ...
It was a gruesome death that is the stuff of most people's nightmares. Now scientists have for the first time revealed the face of Altamura Man, whose bones were found fused to the walls of a cave in ...