Archaeology News

In November of 2013, a team from George Washington University was conducting an archaeological excavation in Israel when they unearthed a 3,700-year-old wine cellar.

Archaeologists are getting a unique look into our region's distant past. Crews with the State Archaeological Survey have uncovered remnants of a prehistoric society, right near the Southern Illinois airport.

A mere 2 percent of the site of the Santa Elena settlement, on what is today called Parris Island, has been excavated since the location of the first colonial capital was confirmed in 1979.

Pieces of what used to be a clay pot used by Native Americans in Southern Illinois.

Iraqi lawmakers elected a veteran Kurdish politician on Thursday to replace long-serving Jalal Talabani as the country's new president in the latest step toward forming a new government.

San Francisco's Asian Art Museum today announced the appointment of Dr. Tianlong Jiao as the museum's new curator of Chinese art .

For years, scientists have been searching for an ancient temple dedicated to a winged warrior.

A farmer tills earth beside a marker that indicates the "monument zone" of the ancient Pyu city of Sri Ksetra.

The Fenton History Center is once again offering hands-on learning about archaeology for children entering grades one through seven at two separate summer camps.

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ornamental Roman arcade under the floor of the property in Colchester High Street.

This weekend islanders will have two opportunities to learn more about Vashon's native people through the clues found by archaeologists during the past century.

A view of the concrete pads that will anchor the bridges spanning the underpass road into Willits.

HUNDREDS turned out to an archaeological dig at Batsworthy today after plans for a nine-turbine wind farm on the site were given the green light.

Much like its predecessor, 2010's Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light , Temple of Osiris is an isometric puzzle game designed for co-op play.

Robert Ballard talks Tuesday about a new exhibit featuring his discoveries of ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean and Black seas, now open at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London.

ALEX.SANCHEZ@STAUGUSTINE.COM Mischa Johns, city archaeologists assistant, Carl Halbirt, City Archaelogist, David Corneal, property owner and Stan Corneal, property owners brother, stand atop a cistern that dates back to the late 1800's midday Thursday, July 17, 2014.

It's one of the more poignant stories in the history of museology: a collection of rare and priceless artefacts from Afghanistan, believed to have been lost to the country's seemingly perennial political conflict, are discovered stashed away in the vaults of the presidential palace in Kabul, untouched and preserved while wars raged on around them.

Sioux City has a long connection to the rails, and ground zero is the historic Milwaukee Railroad shops.

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, minister of state for culture Shripad Naik said the ASI had took up the trial excavation to understand the archaeological significance of the site.

They include one of the earliest pieces of evidence for Christianity in Roman Britain in the shape of a silver ring.