Seventy-nine sets of human remains dating to the seventh century were discovered inside a stone wall at the remote Kuelap fortress in northern Peru, which was built around 1000 A.D. Archaeologist Alfredo Narvaez explained that the people building the fortress brought their dead with them for reburial. A genetic study of mitochondrial DNA taken from […]

There’s more information on the HMS Investigator, discovered by Parks Canada archaeologists in the icy Arctic waters near Bank’s Island. “It’s in surprisingly good condition. The reason we were so lucky in a way was because the ship had not moved too much from the place it was abandoned,” said Marc-Andre Bernier, head of underwater […]