Hush-hush archaeology

Summary

March 17, 2009: After the United States Department of Homeland Security gave permission to build a new border fence between the United States and Mexico which would have resulted in the destruction of a number of archeologist sites of Native American tribes (such as the Kumeyaay) in Southern California), archaeologists were able to obtain permission from the United States Army Corps of Engineers to excavate and examine these sites before the fence was built. The condition was apparently that they would have to do so in complete secrecy.

See Also

• Adventurer Archaeologist

Source

Bibliography

1. Original article

Game and Story Use

• Perhaps the archaeologists and the Corps had prior knowledge of a powerful artifact - perhaps an Artifact of Death or Artifact of Doom buried at the site, which needed to be removed or destroyed before the fence was built.