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George M. A. Hanfmann, a noted Harvard archaeologist who led the expedition that uncovered the largest known temple in the Roman world, died of a heart attack in Cambridge Thursday...
Beleagured San Salvador has found a champion in the shape of North Arizona University archaeologist Charles Hoffman, who has been conducting a dig near the alleged landing site. So far Hoffman has found a Spanish coin dating from approximately 1474, broken Spanish crockery, belt buckles, and ship planking nails...
Wandering these eerie late-20th century ruins, a visitor becomes a kind of archaeologist of the present. In one window, the paper Santa Claus dates the cataclysm that drove everyone away: just before Christmas 1982, the people of Times Beach discovered that their town had been drenched in dioxin, a poison so potent that one drop in 10,000 gal. is considered a dangerous concentration. Under political pressure, the EPA agreed to pay off all property owners; homeowners got between $8,800 and $98,900 apiece. And the town died. On one street remains an ex-resident's bright white...
Breaking new ground last summer, a Harvard archaeologist directed the American half of a joint U.S./Russian expedition that uncovered a previously unknown Bronze Age civilization...
...their gods, had been a place for pilgrimage from 800 to 1500 A.D. Following the Spanish conquest, the gold-greedy conquistadores heard gaudy reports that the Indians had thrown gold, jewels and young virgins into the cenote to propitiate their deities. Nothing was ever found until 1904. Then American Archaeologist Edward H. Thompson, working with a steel bucket appended to a simple boom and derrick, and later with primitive deep-sea diving equipment, spent more than five years exploring the sinkhole. Thompson gradually brought up gold bells in the shape of monkeys, sheet-gold masks, scepters, sacrificial knives...