Archaeology News

Rumors of ancient burials have brought part of Myrtle Beach's plans for a neighborhood update project to a standstill until the truth can be uncovered.

Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday.

The 4,500-year-old vessel is the sister ship of a similar boat removed in pieces from another pit in 1954 and painstakingly reconstructed. Experts believe the boats were meant to ferry the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid in the afterlife.

Starting Saturday, tourists were allowed to view images of the inside of the second boat pit from a camera inserted through the a hole in the chamber's limestone ceiling. The video image, transmitted onto a small TV monitor at the site, showed layers of crisscrossing beams and planks on the floor of the dark pit.

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Nearly 2,000 years after it was buried and preserved under a volcanic eruption, the ancient Roman town of Pompeii is being steadily worn away by modern woes.

Jul 18 - Neglect, tourism pressure and environment threaten to destroy one of the world's most famous archaeological sites.

Archaeologists are wrapping up the first week of a two-week excavation at an upstate historic site that was considered one of the most strategic military outposts in North America.

An educational program will teach children what it takes to be an archaeologist beginning at 9 a.m. July 19.

Tucked away into the lush hillsides in the north of the Kingdom, Tal Ziraa is quietly becoming one of the most important archaeological sites in the Kingdom.

Mexican archaeologists have found the remains of what appear to be four U.S. soldiers who died in 1846 during the Mexican-American war, the government announced on Thursday.

They were Lebanon's first residents, from nearly 1,000 years ago. Now modern officials are determining what to do about the loss of the artifacts that were all that remained to show they were even there.

A French government official is touring an archaeology excavation at an upstate NY historic site where his country garrisoned a key military outpost 250 years ago.

In the remote desert highlands of southern Yemen, a team of archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient transitions from hunting and herding to irrigation agriculture 5,200 years ago.

While the crystal skull was the main plot device for the latest Indiana Jones Adventure, last week it was discovered the revered pieces of archeology are actually fake.

Underwater archaeologists are taking to Loch Tay to try to uncover more about a submerged prehistoric woodland.

Some months ago I was taking some notes about Neandertal pigment use, drawn from a recent article by Marie Soressi and Francesco d'Errico. I got distracted and didn't finish writing them up at the time.

It started out as a simple plan to erect a pavilion-like shelter at the Marshall Street Park.

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Researchers are digging at a spring near Sarasota, searching for evidence that humans lived there more than 10,000 years ago.

The Corps of Engineers is concerned about species and unexploded ordnance. By MATTHEW STURDEVANT 247-7874 July 15, 2008 A 1998 storm breached the spit of land called Factory Point , at the north end of ...

There is disagreement over how it happened but not what happened -- about an acre of one of the country's most significant prehistoric sites was destroyed by bulldozing.