The remains of 116 people have been uncovered in a ninth-century cemetery in southeastern Mexico. “The 66 burials in urns correspond to individuals belonging to the Mayan elite and the other 50 – placed in different positions around them – to their companions in the afterlife,” said Ricardo Armijo of the National Anthropology and History […]

A dig at the Old College site at Scotland’s University of Edinburgh has unearthed laboratory equipment that was probably used by eighteenth-century chemist Joseph Black. Human bone fragments were revealed in southeast Missouri when a Mississippi River levee was blown up in order to relieve flooding. The Canadian Museum of Civilization will return its collection […]