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History of the Week: NIU Professor leads major archeology discovery

By Northern Star staff | March 30, 2016

NIU anthropology professor William Fash directed a team of 12 students through an ancient Mayan city in 1987 where they uncovered 1,200-year-old jade and flint artifacts. Fash had been taking American students to the Copan ruins for the last 10 years...