2000 Excavations Publications Finds On Nelson's Island off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, Italian archaeologist Dr. Paolo Gallo uncovers a group of graves dating from the 1798 Battle of the Nile. The graves contain the remains of British Royal Navy officers, sailors, and marines, as well as women and children. Awards Miscellaneous 8 August: Wreck of Confederate submarine CSS H. L. Hunley raised Births Deaths 2001 Explorations Excavations Grinnell College project at Mayapan Excavations at Cival directed by Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli Publications Finds Awards Miscellaneous Births Deaths 29 March: Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer; co-discoverer of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows 2002 Explorations Excavations Finds Mask of la Roche-Cotard 3,500-year-old human remains found in the Citadel of Damascus June: Newport ship Publications Thebes tablets Miscellaneous Brief reappearance and study of Seaton Carew Wreck Births Deaths 2003 Explorations Excavations Finds Royal saxon tomb in Prittlewell Publications Births 2004 Excavations Publications Finds Salcombe B underwater archaeological site identified from Bronze Age finds discovered on the Salcombe Cannon Wrecksite Awards Miscellaneous Albert Goodyear of the University of South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology announces that radiocarbon dating at the Topper Site dated to approximately 50,000 years ago, or approximately 37,000 years before the Clovis culture Graeme Barker elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge Births Deaths 2005 Explorations Excavations Rare child sacrifice to war god at Tenochtitlan Archaeologists excavating the Templo Mayor site in Tenochtitlan (modern-day Mexico City) announced on 22 July the discovery of a rare child sacrifice to Huitzilopochtli, the war god of the Aztecs. The find was unusual because Huitzilopochtli was usually honored with hearts or skulls from adult warrior sacrifices, and child sacrifices were usually to Tlaloc, the rain god. The find was especially valuable because the remains of the child were found whole, and with whistles, collars, ankle bracelets of shell and copper bells, items usually found at ceremonial burials. Archaeologists believe that the sacrifice took place around 1450 in a cornerstone-laying ceremony to mark the building a new layer of the temple (new layers were added about once every 52 years). An Associated Press article remarked that: "Priests propped the child in a sitting position, his legs splayed out in front of him, and workers packed sand and clay around his body, which was then covered beneath a flight of stone temple steps...the find came almost by accident last month, as