Archaeology News

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.

A Travis County murder trial ended in a hung jury Thursday after a defense lawyer argued that his client shot a man in defense of his home, according to lawyers in the case.

The beginning of chocolate is the cacao tree, known by ethnobotanists as "theobroma cacao." According to the article, " Introduction: Chocolate's History at a Glance ," chocolate in its raw state grows in a pod like a pea, but on trees 40-60 feet tall.

CHRIS CAROLA Archaeologists digging at proposed NY-Vt. ferry site, home to 18th-century military ruins ALBANY, N.Y. - ALBANY, N.Y. a ' A New York archaeological team began work Friday on a state-owned campground at an 18th-century military site where a temporary ferry service is being considered to replace the closed Champlain Bridge, officials ...

Three men, including the board member of an auction house, have been arrested on Gotland in connection with the plunder of hundreds of Viking -era silver artifacts from the Baltic Sea island, Sveriges Radio reports.

To most of the world, the image of an archaeological dig comes from the movies. You remember: in the first Indiana Jones movie, there's an iconic moment when Indy is standing at the archaeological site in Tanis, peering through a theodolite, with hundreds of Nazi-paid workmen around him.

HAWASS REQUESTS RETURN OF NEFERTITI, EGYPTIAN QUEEN HELD IN BERLIN, GERMANY By Kwame Opoku, Dr.

Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years.

GENOA -- Forget Indiana Jones. Professor Artie Facts and his archaeological expedition are coming to Genoa Civic Theatre this month in the comedy/mystery, 'Evil Doings at Queen Toot's Tomb.' The play, which is the first in the season's 'Death by Laughter' series, opens Friday.

An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up more artifacts that he believes pinpoint part of the trail of the 16th century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

It has sun, history and a certain air of adventure. But you don't often find Iraq on the list of a holidaymakers' dream destinations.

Entry sign on King Tut's tomb. Photo by Molly McCahan. It was 87 years ago today when British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the entrance to King Tut's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt.

In an excavation conducted in late October, about 100 meters north of the Old City wall of Acre, a unique find was discovered from the Crusader period in the 13th Century; a hoard of 350 marble items that were collected from destroyed buildings.

TWO sixth-form pupils from King Alfred School in Highbridge took part in an archaeology project near Kilve.

A neighborhood group has given up efforts to save a small Cincinnati house that once served as the home base for a major archaeological operation.

Farmer on whose land 1,500 pieces of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver were found pays first visit to London for exhibition opening a Iron age gold treasure found in Scotland Farmer Fred Johnson inspects a gold piece found on his land, at the British Museum.

Some of the vessels uncovered in the new Thracian tomb by the team of archaeologist Veselin Ignatov near Karanova.

Workers uncovered a young Irishman's grave in New York's Greenwich Village more than 200 years after he died.

New York City Dept of Parks and Recreation workers expected to find unidentified bones when they dug below the city's Washington Square Park -- more than 20,000 people are believed to be buried in the former graveyard. But they discovered the 210-year-old 3ft-high sandstone gravestone of a Co Kildare man who died in 1799.

A metal-detecting enthusiast has unearthed a 2,000-year-old treasure hoard worth an estimated A 1 million in a field near Stirling.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe the former Radcliffe Infirmary site was the burial area for Oxford's great and good 4,000 years ago.