A 1,400-year-old tomb has been found in southern Mexico. Edgar Pineda of the National Institute of Anthropology and History explained that it had been built by the Chontal ethnic group, and that it had probably been situated beneath a building in the center of an ancient city. Some 26,000 acres of land in northern Arizona have […]

Archaeologists began cataloging items that had been recovered from the World Trade Center site in 2006. “What we are getting at is that archaeology pulls together lost moments of time and that archaeology defines history,” said Kate Quinn of the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Libya’s new minister for antiquities, Fadel Ali Mohammed, […]