Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: One of the world's oldest surviving collections of writing, scratched into 'oracle bones' by Shang dynasty chroniclers more than three millennia ago, is finally giving up its secrets.

Libraries, brothels and marble streets: Inside one of the world's best-preserved Roman cities The security lines at the entrance move with airport-like efficiency.

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins continued to make news.