A 12,000-year-old iron oxide mine in northern Chile is being called the oldest mine in the Americas. Huentelauquen Indians used the iron oxide in rituals and to dye cloth.  The Morgantina silver has returned to Sicily, where it will be housed at the archaeological museum in the town of Aidone. Archaeologists estimate that the 16 […]

A luxury shoe company has offered 25 million euros to restore the Colosseum in Rome. The problem: the Italian government requires corporate sponsors to organize the work as well. Stephen H. Savage of Arizona State University has located copper ore and smelting slag at Jordan’s Khirbat en-Nahas using a hyperspectral instrument called Hyperion aboard a […]