Analysis of vessels from Pueblo vessels unearthed in the U.S. Southwest shows that people drank a cacao-based beverage imported from southern Mexico or Central America. Dorothy Washburn of the University of Pennsylvania says that southwestern societies traded turquoise for this Mesoamerican cacao. “Turquoise workers may have been paid in cacao, as was the case in […]

Twelve artifacts stolen from the Egyptian Museum on January 29 have been recovered, according to Ahram Online. Antiquities police and military forces found the objects in the possession of three accused thieves.  The U.S. government has demanded that the St. Louis Art Museum hand over the 3,200-year-old death mask of Egyptian noblewoman Ka-Nefer-Nefer. A federal […]