Traces of chocolate have been found for the first time on a 2,500-year-old plate at the Paso del Macho site in Mexico. “This indicates that the pre-Hispanic Maya may have eaten foods with cacao sauce, similar to mole,” according to a statement released by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. It had been thought that […]

The $30 million restoration of the Roman Colosseum will get underway in December, funded by the billionaire Diego Della Valle. Rossella Rea, director of the Colosseum, thinks that the monument’s tilt, which was recently announced, happened in antiquity, possibly following an earthquake. “The monument is very stable, otherwise we wouldn’t have arranged for the kind […]