A portion of a human skull dating back more than 4,000 years was found along a river in Indiana, the local coroner's office announced on Monday.

The bone fragment, found in June, “is a powerful and humbling reminder that people have walked this land, our home in Fayette County, for millennia,” the county’s coroner said.

San Joaquin County officials confirmed its first human case of West Nile virus of the year so far on Tuesday afternoon. The SJC Public Health Service said the virus was found on an elderly male patient,

First discovered in 1997, Karahan Tepe is a sprawling 12,000-year-old site where rows of stone pillars are carved with mysterious human figures and animal depictions, hinting at a lost culture from the dawn of history that thrived long before the pyramids or Stonehenge.