Move over King Tut. Archaeologists continue to dig up the past, recently unearthing the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of Mexico City, stumbling upon a ship piloted by the infamous Captain Kidd and discovering a cave worshiped by ancient Romans.http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 28 Aug 2008 7:49:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35900/1300-year-old-mummy-found-in-peru.html?refid=rss_all_defaultArchaeologists have discovered an ancient mummy in a tomb from a culture that flourished in Peru before the Incas. A complete female mummy, along with the remains of two other adults and a child, have been found in the Wari burial site in a residential district of Lima, Reuters reports. The site dates from about 700 AD. The Wari people ruled what is now Peru for some 500 years.http://www.newser.com/story/35900/1300-year-old-mummy-found-in-peru.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 27 Aug 2008 1:33:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35810/statue-of-roman-ruler-unearthed-in-turkey.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA rich archaeological site in southern Turkey has yielded another spectacular find: the head and limbs of an enormous statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Excavators at Sagalassos, who had previously discovered bits of Hadrian and the Empress Faustina, say the new discovery, with its 3-foot head, represents some of the finest work of its time, BBC reports.http://www.newser.com/story/35810/statue-of-roman-ruler-unearthed-in-turkey.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 26 Aug 2008 3:22:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34963/sahara-yields-ancient-cemetery.html?refid=rss_all_defaultExplorers hunting for dinosaur bones have found a Stone Age cemetery deep in the Sahara desert, National Geographic reports. The team of paleontologists discovered bones from two separate ancient human cultures that lived in the region as long as 10,000 years ago, when monsoon rains turned parts of the desert lush and green.http://www.newser.com/story/34963/sahara-yields-ancient-cemetery.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 15 Aug 2008 11:48:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34336/dna-tests-set-for-baby-girls-in-king-tuts-tomb.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe 3,000-year-old mummified remains of two stillborn baby girls found in King Tutankhamun's tomb will undergo DNA testing to dermine their relationship to Egypt's famous boy king and Queen Nefertiti. The babies' remains were discovered in Tut's tomb in 1922 but never publicly displayed, reports the BBC.http://www.newser.com/story/34336/dna-tests-set-for-baby-girls-in-king-tuts-tomb.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 06 Aug 2008 22:22:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/33895/dirty-jokes-of-the-ancients-unearthed.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAcademics studying ancient texts have discovered bawdy jokes that wouldn't be out of place in a Farrelly brothers movie, the Daily Telegraph reports. "What hangs at a man’s thigh and wants to poke the hole that it’s often poked before?" asks a thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon manuscript.  "Answer: A key.”http://www.newser.com/story/33895/dirty-jokes-of-the-ancients-unearthed.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 01 Aug 2008 1:49:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31494/dig-finds-washingtons-home-no-cherry-tree.html?refid=rss_all_defaultArchaeologists have found the childhood home of George Washington, the New York Times reports—and despite the popular legend, there's no cherry tree anywhere on the premises. Researchers describe the founding father's Virginia digs as “a very nice gentry house” sporting eight rooms—not the simple cottage pictured in popular imagination.http://www.newser.com/story/31494/dig-finds-washingtons-home-no-cherry-tree.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 02 Jul 2008 16:16:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31341/expert-tunes-into-aztec-death-whistles.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA Mexican engineer has worked for decades to bring the sounds of the Aztecs back to life, reports the AP. Roberto Velazquez has created replicas of the instruments found at many archaeological sites—including the eerie "Whistles of Death" discovered with a skeleton in an ancient temple—and experimented to re-create noises that may have been heard at ceremonies thousands of years ago.http://www.newser.com/story/31341/expert-tunes-into-aztec-death-whistles.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 01 Jul 2008 2:05:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30723/new-findings-shatter-old-mayan-theories.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSome experts want to drain Mayan history of its high drama—the sudden collapse, and desperate migration—to tell a longer, slower story, USA Today reports. Classic history claims that Mayan cities imploded quickly around 900 AD, and their people trekked north to colonize in the Yucatan—but experts now say that Mayans had already lived there for 1,000 years.http://www.newser.com/story/30723/new-findings-shatter-old-mayan-theories.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 23 Jun 2008 13:46:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/29977/1780-british-warship-found.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTwo intrepid explorers using sonar and a remote-controlled submersible have discovered what may be the oldest shipwreck in the Great Lakes, the AP reports. HMS Ontario, a British warship carrying as many as 130, sank in a storm in Lake Ontario in 1780. Since 1781, when six sailors’ bodies washed ashore, there had been no sign of the 80-foot sloop before the find announced yesterday.http://www.newser.com/story/29977/1780-british-warship-found.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 13 Jun 2008 20:25:08 CDT