A mass grave containing 49 Aztec skeletons was unearthed in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco area, where archaeologists were searching for a palace complex. “We were completely taken by surprise. We didn’t expect to find this massive funeral complex,” said archaeologist Salvador Guilliem. The excavated Assyrian palace of Ashurnasirpal at Nimrud, Iraq, is crumbling after 20 years […]

A document, written in 1924 by the secretary of the German Oriental Company, is said to give an account of the 1913 meeting between a senior Egyptian official and German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt, who found the famed bust of Nefertiti in 1912. The secretary claimed that Borchardt downplayed the quality of the statue because he […]