Bits of dishes, bricks, and wood from the Russian colonization period have been unearthed in Kodiak, Alaska. Investigation of a blockhouse thought to have been built by Henry VIII will begin next week. The blockhouse was placed on the edge of a sea cliff in Wales. “We want to look at this last bit, which […]

Construction workers in Mexico found an eighth-century monolith featuring the Aztec rain god, Tlaloc. Archaeologists from the Institute of Anthropology and History think the monument is linked to the nearby archaeological site of Xochicalco. Lawrence Rothfield of the University of Chicago thinks that museum guards and others who defend heritage sites should be armed and […]