After years of searching, a new initiative aims to trace these historic missing fossils, says Ching-Ching Ni
It's a mystery that has baffled the world for more than half a century. Whatever happened to the fossils of the prehistoric human ancestor known as Peking Man?
Their discovery in the late 1920s and 1930s in limestone caves on the outskirts of Beijing, then called Peking in the West, was one of the 20th century's greatest paleontological finds. The discovery was not the first of its kind, but it was the first and largest group of fossils of this ancient human found in China and established the hominid as a step in evolutionary history.
Hey, now we know what the next Indiana Jones movie will be about. . . .