Archaeology News

Known as a guttus, the unique vessel dates back about 2,400 years and was found in a tomb cut out of a rock.

Artifacts found at an archaeological site in Cyprus support a new theory that humans occupied the tiny Mediterranean island about 1,000 years earlier than previously believed -- a discovery that fills an important gap in Cypriot history.

A Spanish hotel built on the remains of a 15th century synagogue opened a new synagogue on its seventh floor.

The Mayor Of Derry Cllr Martin Reilly, pictured at the Tower Museum, during the launch of Ruairi O'Baoill's book 'Island City: The Archaelogy Of Derry-Londonderry', from left, Paul Logue , Terrence Reese-Smmth , Tony Corey , Ruairi O'Baoill, MLA Mark Durkin & Roisin Doherty .

Jerusalem is Israel's most important city for tourists. While many other locations demand attention, this world-class gem should be experienced in depth and unrushed.

The foundations of 17th century house thought to have been the home of King Charles I's surgeon have been uncovered on site at a Stratford Broadway redevelopment.

The city will pay archaeologists close to $45,000 to search a downtown site where thousands of runaway slaves erected tents during the Civil War.

High in the whitebark pine forest in the Wind River Mountains, in 2006, archaeologist Richard Adams stumbled across an alpine village like never before seen in Wyoming.

Archaeologists believe two bodies found in the grounds of Harlech's old Queen's Hotel date from the days when the castle was almost permanently under siege Workers building a new visitor centre next to Harlech Castle may have stumbled on the remains of two people who may have been caught up in the Wars of the Roses.

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Ilex has confirmed four subterranean structures discovered during the construction of an underground car park at Ebrington, were not of particular archaeological or historic interest.

The mystery began when an anonymous woman walked into New Haven's Ecuadorian consulate with a shoebox full of missing treasure.

There are still too many people out there who sincerely believe that a compromise with the Arabs-who-refer-to-themselves-as-"Palestinians" is possible, attainable and sustabable.

Archaeologists unearthed on Tuesday, from the archeological site opened in Sfantul Gheorghe [Saint George] Square in Timisoara, a coin dating from the times of the Ottoman Pashalik, with the researchers expecting to discover more such coins there, Agerpres reports.

ALOR SETAR: The developer allegedly responsible for the demolition of a candi at the Lembah Bujang archaeological site has agreed to rebuild and locate the structure at its orginal site in Sungai Batu, Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir said.

Thomas E. Levy, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, has been unanimously elected to as Chair-Elect of the American Schools of Oriental Research Committee on Archaeological Policy .

The prolific Gears, husband-and-wife authors and archaeologists, translate their archaeological knowledge about native American peoples into very successful historical novels.

The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology is doing preliminary research at the site of Camp Asylum, a Union POW camp on the Bull Street property.

A news release form the institute says Executive Director William W. Shilts announced the appointments on Tuesday.

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