Exciting "Golden Chief" Tomb Treasures

In newly found tombs in Central America,archaeologists have discovered some exciting treasures. These include thousand-year-old gold, gems, and even hints of murder by pufferfish. But the real excitement lies in clues which they have discovered about the unnamed civilization of the  golden chiefs of Panama.

"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, said anthropologist John Hoopes.


The recently discovered artifacts which date back to between A.D 700 and 1000, were excavated about two miles (three kilometers) from Sitio Conte, at a site called El Caño.

Source:National Geographic