In Guatemala, archaeologists have used sonar technology to map a Maya pilgrimage site, now submerged in Lake Atitlan. The site was discovered by businessman Robert Samayoa, whose grandmother told him legends of a sunken church while he was growing up. “We have found six ceremonial monuments and four altars and without doubt there are more, […]

 Austrian archaeologists found a Babylonian seal near the ancient town of Avaris, in Egypt. Irene Forstner-M üller of the Austrian Archaeological Institute says the seal confirms contact between the Babylonians and the Hyksos, who ruled Egypt between 1640 and 1530 B.C.   During the Revolutionary War, British troops razed the West Parish Meeting House in Connecticut, […]