Anthropology News

Later this month Egyptian archaeologists will travel to the Louvre museum in Paris to five ancient fresco fragments stolen from a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1980s, but there are many other "stolen" antiquities which they also want back, reports the BBC's Yolande Knell in Cairo.

The passing of Claude Levi-Strauss marks the end of an era in the study of human culture.

Aside from the standard books and laptop found on the desks of most students, Jason Cohen's desk also holds a Chinese tea set.

Egypt and the Getty Conservation Institute announced Tuesday a five-year project to restore the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world.

The ASCC Samoan Studies Institute recently released the educational coloring book "Samoa Anamua a which features contributions from archaeology instructor Dr.

Herodotus wrote of a 50,000-man strong army that set out on foot into the Egyptian desert in 525 B.C. and was never heard from again ... until today.

DANVILLE, Ky. - Part of Danville's history has started to emerge from the layers of soil behind the Willis Russell House.

Recently excavated Mayan murals are giving archaeologists a rare look into the lives of ordinary ancient Maya.

French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss passed away on October 30 at the age of 100.

East Berlin citizens crowd the new passage at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin on Saturday, Nov.

ICA, Peru - A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city's edge.

The circus is still in town. A big tent. They like him. Or at least they like him enough.

COKER CREEK, Tenn. - The U.S. Forest Service has begun to uncover the remains of a fort used to temporarily house migrating Cherokee along the Trail of Tears more than 170 years ago.

Maria Teresa Tersigni-Tarrant donned a harness, clipped it to a rope and made her way down Lookout Mountain to the spot where someone found human skeletal remains last April.

Long-hidden art and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean are on display for the first time in years at the University of Michigan's newly expanded Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.

Sick of being portrayed as helpless victims, indigenous peoples are now picking up the camera themselves.

Appletorte is the perfect way to finish off a dinner that might have been eaten by Temperance Brennan, the detective in mysteries by author Kathy Reichs.

A sewer plant expansion project has turned up some unlikely things in Hartford -- including artifacts that could be thousands of years old.

London, November 7 : A bust of Julius Caesar, recovered from the Rhone riverbed, is now on display as part of an exhibition of artefacts discovered in the bed of the Rhone river over the last 20 years, at a museum in southern France.

London, November 7 : An archaeology professor has discovered the missing legs of a 900-year-old Buddhist statue deep in the Cambodian jungle, rewriting history in the process.