Archaeology News

Artifacts from the shipwreck of what's believed to have been Blackbeard's flagship will be shown off in an eastern North Carolina lab.

I grew up wondering through the woods of the Northeast Kingdom on an endless search for arrowheads, old bottles and rusted metal.

Archaeologists trying their luck at the future site of a Philadelphia casino have hit it big.

A proposed jail facility west of Palm Springs would pose few significant risks to the local area, according to an environmental assessment released today by Riverside County officials.

The resting place of the USS Westfield is being disturbed to retrieve what's left of the Civil War-era vessel from a Texas ship channel.

The boat, authorities said, went over a small dam and overturned. The men, both in life vests, plunged into the 38-degree water.

Slate ponders how to communicate the danger of radioactive waste to the far future.

A 7-day Belize trip lets women discover Mayan ruins, explore an eerie ceremonial cave, snorkel with sting rays, meet village locals, and more.

Medieval buildings, a WWII flying boat, Nevern Castle and coastal archaeology are all hot topics at tomorrow's Archaeology Day School hosted by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority.

There's a new show opening up at the New Mexico History Museum . Okay, actually, it sounds really cool.

The Mesolithic site may date from as early as 9000 BC, by which time hunter-gatherers had reoccupied the region after the last ice age.

"Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor" featuring the largest number of terra cotta figures ever to travel to the United States for a single exhibition, will open on Nov.

An ancient Persian stone relief in Persepolis, Iran. Corbis ENLARGE + In 525 BC, the Persian Emperor Cambyses dispatched 50,000 of his soldiers to lay waste to an oasis temple in the Sahara desert because its oracle had spoken ill of his plans for world domination.

The secret is out: Man and gomphotheres once coexisted in Sonora. Tools and spear tips found with fossil bones at a remote Sonoran site suggest that Clovis-era hunters butchered two juvenile specimens of the elephantlike megafauna about 13,000 years ago.

Melbourne archaeologist Dr Vincent Clark at work. While the ageing Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford, proves fossils are still very much in demand, many real-life archaeologists in Victoria are undergoing a popularity surge of their own.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is ready to help American Samoa assess and fund an island-wide siren alert system, which has to be initiated by the local government, says a top FEMA official.

Michael Galaty's fascination with anthropology began with a visit with his grandfather to the original King Tut exhibit in Chicago at age 7. The interest sparked on that trip more than 30 years ago has turned into a doctorate in anthropology, archeology digs in North America and Southeastern Europe, and most recently, the national undergraduate ...

Archaeological digs in two Washington national parks continue to reveal artifacts that debunk the myth that indigenous people didn’t gather food and plants from the upper reaches of the Cascades.

A dig near Cascade Pass in North Cascades National Park has revealed evidence that humans used the area 9,600 years ago. At Mount Rainier National Park, a site on the northern slope of the mountain has produced artifacts dating back 7,600 years.

Seven decades and counting, an archaeological site continues to yield vestiges of one of Vietnam's three most prominent ancient cultures.

Under the leadership of Dr. David Addison, a research archaeologist at the Samoan Studies Institute at the American Samoa Community College, a study is in progress to assess damages to archaeological sites on Tutuila exposed by the Sept.