Anthropologist Dean Arnold of Wheaton College and a team of researchers think that the Maya created their intense blue pigment by cooking the ingredients in ceramic bowls over burning incense near sacrificial sites. Ancient human remains thought to have once been a member of the Duwamish tribe were discovered near Seattle’s Pike Place Market.   Between […]

A circular plaza has been uncovered by Peruvian and German archaeologists at Sechin Bajo, 229 miles north of Lima. The plaza is estimated to be 5,500 years old, making it older than the citadel of Caral, and one of the oldest structures in the Americas. Lisa Lucero of the University of Illinois thinks that the […]