And in other not really but kind of real estate news.

Imagine getting on eBay to bid for ownership of your favorite Washington DC Monument. I'll take the Lincoln Memorial for $32.50, I hear it for $32.50 do I hear $35? Owning a piece of national history? Restoring it as you see fit? Visiting the historical site of a great civilization and calling it private property? Some call it Chichen Itza but the Barbachanos call it "mine." ABC News reports:

Over the last half century, the land within this archaeological site has belonged to the Barbachanos, a wealthy and powerful family in the state of Yucatán. The family purchased the grounds from an American diplomat, who excavated here in the 1900s but fell out of grace with Mexico for shipping artifacts back to the US.

Federal legislators are considering taking over the land, that is if Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and history (INAH) don't get it first. And some locals of Maya descent claim it should belong to them.

Scientists around the world worry about what impact the ownership impasse will have on the site's preservation. Already, an influx of small vendors is taxing the park's sewage and other facilities. "Right now the site is suffering terribly because there are many more people there than should be," says Geoffrey Braswell, an anthropologist from the University of California at San Diego. "It's a disgrace."

We'll have to wait to see how this one plays out but I have a feeling the Mayans are last on the list for getting back their once great city (if they are really on the list at all).