Scientists have gained a new understanding of the Aztecs’ arithmetic system from hieroglyphic tax records kept between 1540 and 1544. “I think the study is neat because it shows that this sort of math and science was pretty practical in orientation,” commented Michael Smith of Arizona State University.

A Viking-age hoard of 470 silver coins was discovered beneath a cairn near Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. The coins had been minted in Baghdad, Damascus, Persia, and North Africa.  

The shallow grave of a British naval officer who died in the nineteenth century was uncovered at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. “That burial ground appears on charts as far back as 1816 and may have been established as early as the War of 1812,” said archaeologist Sue Bazely.  

Rome’s archaeologists say that tourists have pillaged the city’s ancient monuments.  

Here’s more information on yesterday’s announcement that 14,000-year-old human feces were discovered in a cave in Oregon. “We finally have human remains or cells, basically molecular evidence for human beings before the Clovis time,” said archaeologist Dennis Jenkins.

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