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  • Archaeologists uncover gold-laden tomb filled with elite burial treasures from over 1,000 years ago

    03/09/2026 6:28:07 AM PDT · by deport · 17 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 9, 2026 5:00am EDT | Andrea Margolis
    Archaeologists recently unearthed a gold-laden burial in Panama — an epic discovery that dates back over 1,000 years. The Ministry of Culture of Panama announced the discovery, made at the El Caño archaeological site in Panama's Coclé Province. The tomb contained several gold and metal artifacts, including chest plates, ear ornaments and bracelets, as well as "finely crafted ceramics." The tomb is called Tomb 3.
  • "Golden Chief" Tomb Treasure Yields Clues to Unnamed Civilization

    12/26/2011 6:35:46 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 40 replies
    National Geographic News ^ | December 21, 2011 | James Owen
    "Spectacular find" includes gold, jewels, and a small army of likely sacrifices. Newfound tombs in Central America are yielding thousand-year-old gold, gems, and even hints of murder by pufferfish. But the real treasure is the excavation's clues to the unnamed civilization of the so-called golden chiefs of Panama, archaeologists say. "It's really a very spectacular find. ... probably the most significant" for this culture since the 1930s, when the nearby Sitio Conte site, also in central Panama, yielded a wealth of gold artifacts, anthropologist John Hoopes said. Until now, Sitio Conte provided the only major evidence of the golden-chiefs culture,...