Can Archaeologists Keep What They Find? Professional archaeologists do not keep, buy, sell, or trade any artifacts. Quite simply, they don’t get to keep what they find because it doesn’t belong to them. If archaeologists kept what they found, they would be the only ones to know the story behind the object. Archaeologists want to
What Is The Lost City Called? Santa Maria, Colombia (CNN) — Hidden deep in the jungle of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in Colombia sits Ciudad Perdida, the “Lost City.” Built by the Tairona people more than 1,000 years ago, the archaeological site only became an attraction after it was uncovered in the
When Did They Find Alexander The Great’s Tomb? In 2014, Greece and the rest of the world were shaken by the news of the discovery of the Alexander the Great’s Tomb in Amphipolis, northern Greece. Has the tomb of Alexander been found? “The tomb is well-known and was excavated in the 1850’s [and] has been