A construction project in Manchester, England, has revealed several shops and residences from “Angel Meadow,” a notorious nineteenth-century slum. “It was such a hideous, wet, horrible place to live, but it was these people who powered the Industrial Revolution in Manchester,” said site director Chris Wild.

The economic crisis in Greece has forced the culture ministry to keep archaeological discoveries in the ground, where they become vulnerable to looters.

Two new treasure-hunting shows on cable television have drawn the attention of concerned archaeologists. “Two hundred years ago, archaeology was a treasure hunt—finding fabulous things for museum collections. But we learned long ago that archaeological sites were really books to read, pages of history,” said Steve Lekson of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Here are several photographs of the Inca archaeological site in Ecuador that Tamara Estupinan, a researcher for the French Institute for Andean Studies, thinks may hold the tomb of Atahualpa, the last emperor of the Incas. “This is a late imperial design Inca monument that leads to several rectangular rooms that were built with cut polished stone set around a trapezoidal plaza,” she said.

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