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Thursday, December 18
December 18, 2008

Two jaw bones holding teeth decorated with iron pyrite and jade were sent anonymously to the Honduran Embassy in the Netherlands, according to this report in the Latin American Herald Tribune. Dario Euraque of the Honduran Anthropology and History Institute says that the jaws came from two members of the Maya elite who lived in […]

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Wednesday, December 17
December 17, 2008

Here’s more information on the Wari city discovered at Peru’s Cerro Patapo archaeological site. Scientists are calling the city the “missing link” between the Wari and the Moche. Three ram statues bearing a complete royal dedication in Meriotic script were uncovered in the Sudan. “It is one of the last antique languages that we still […]

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