Recent excavations at the Late Classic Maya city of Palenque in Mexico have yielded a tomb decorated with the first painted murals ever found at the site.
In the largest single repatriation of American Indian remains ever, the bones of nearly 2,000 people have been returned to the pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico.
On the future site of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., excavation has turned up the midden associated with a Civil War-era brothel.