• MAMMOTHS: Mexican archeologists have unearthed the remains of at least 60 Pleistocene mammoths during excavations for the new Santa Lucía Airport -one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s signature projects- just 27 miles north of Mexico City’s downtown.
• GREEN LIGHT: Planned to open in 2022, construction of the Santa Lucía Airport will move ahead despite the discovery of thousands of mammoths bones at the 3,700-acres site. Located in the Zumpango municipality, the site was once part of a system of lakes and pre-Columbian cultures.
• TROVE: “(In Santa Lucia) we have found everything: from Pleistocene fauna…also remains of some seasonal workers camp, ceramic remains, ceramic complexes from the Teotihuacan era”, said Pedro Francisco Sánchez Nava, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
• MEGASITE: The Santa Lucía Airport grounds are located just 7 miles far from the Tultepec municipality where last year researchers found two huge pits holding 14 mammoth skeletons. Scientists suspect these could be the first human-made traps used to capture mammoths
