Studies of Otzi, everybody’s favorite 5,300-year-old Iceman, continue to produce new theories. Found back in 1991, he was first a lost shepherd, then a murder victim. Now, Rome University’s Alessandro Vanzetti claims the Iceman died nearer sea level and months later was carried to a high mountain pass (10,500 feet) and ceremonially buried. Meanwhile, Anne […]

Why was the Maya site of Kiuic, in the Puuc region of the Yucatán, abandoned so quickly around A.D. 880? Archaeologists have found walls laid out with corner stones but never built; a half-finished plaza, one side stuccoed and completed, the other composed only of rough stones; and pots and grinding stones left neatly in […]