Strapped for Funds by a Pandemic, Mexico Buries Archaeological Site Mid-Dig

Citing rising health care costs associated with the pandemic, Mexico said it will bury a centuries-old tunnel found in 2019 near an ancient Aztec city. The country said it could not afford to turn the archaeological site into a tourist attraction as was initially planned, and that experts would no longer be able to carry out research because the funding had dried up.
The tunnel was found outside the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, in what is now central Mexico. It was once part of the Alba