A 2,700-year-old tomb discovered in a pyramid in southern Mexico may be the oldest pyramid tomb to be documented in Mesoamerica. The tomb was built by the Zoque Indians, and ceramics inside the tomb show influences from the Olmec culture. Greek police have confiscated two marble statues from two farmers who tried to sell them.  […]

A colossal red-granite statue of the god Thoth has been unearthed near the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III in Luxor, Egypt. Scientists have replicated a 1.3 million-year-old date for Mexico’s Xalnene Ash, which is said to contain some controversial so-called footprints. Optical stimulated luminescence tests suggested that the ash and was 40,000 years old, and […]