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14/11/2022

However, one of skeletons – found at the very top of the House of the Thirteen Heavens – gave the archaeologists more food for thought. Based on various marks on its bones, they first deemed it a man: a hunter or warrior. But the latest DNA analysis revealed that she was a woman. More surprisingly, the analysis showed that the body was much older than the structures themselves. While the temple was built in 540 CE, the woman's skeleton dates to 400 BCE, nearly a millennium earlier.

09/11/2022

09/11/2022

09/11/2022

Rather than just chasing cracks, however, new technologies are helping archaeologists make more discoveries. “When we started in 1978, we used theodolites [an instrument used for mapping vertical and horizontal angles],” Matos said. “Now, 3D scanners are used.” Barrera explained that ground-penetration radar is also used to help archaeologists detect what lies beneath the surface of Mexico City’s central streets and plazas. However, Barrera also described how traditional excavation is still often needed to “corroborate what the information and the geophysical scanners show.” The layers of history under the city mean that scanners might appear to find something pre-Hispanic when, in fact, they have landed on a relic from colonial times. Therefore, the only way to be sure is to roll up your sleeves and dig.

29/10/2022

At their simplest definition, vie cave (via cava is the singular) were walled pathways used to travel from the highlands to the riverbanks and vice versa. While they're found in various places across central Italy (where the Etruscans thrived from 900 BCE until they were absorbed into the Roman Empire), the vie cave here in southern Tuscany between the towns of Pitigliano, Sorano and Sovana are among the oldest and most intact. "It's incredible that the vie cave have lasted so long," Ronca said. "During the Etruscan times, they knew what they were doing."