The U.S. Department of Energy said 130 large waste containers were recently exhumed from two underground storage sites at the federal Hanford Site in the southern region of Washington.
Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece.