Archaeology News

Prepare for an adventure like never before when Indiana Jones invades the Fort Worth Museum of Science when National Geographic presents Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have claimed the undiscovered heritage of North Yorkshire could be destroyed if a council cuts its historic environment team.

In preparation for this year's World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, many construction projects are underway in Rio De Janeiro, and they are uncovering evidence of the city's historic involvement in the Atlantic slave trade-more than 1.8 million enslaved Africans landed in Rio.

ARCHAEOLOGY LECTURE: Expert Prof Audrey Horning, from Queen's University in Belfast, will deliver a lecture entitled "Ireland in the Virginia Sea: comparative archaeologies of the early modern Atlantic world" on Saturday .

Many are captivated with tombs and mummies, maybe it's due to the popular movies of Indiana Jones.

Amateur photographs of the Sutton Hoo dig taken in the summer of 1939 by two visiting school teachers, Barbara Wagstaff and Mercie Lack.

Some 4,000 years ago people carried a young woman's cremated bones - charred scraps of her shroud and the wood from her funeral pyre still clinging to them - carefully wrapped in a fur, along with her most valuable possessions packed into a basket, up to one of the highest and most exposed spots on Dartmoor, and buried them in a small stone box ... (more)

AN appeal has been launched for photographs of Wirral people who lived through the First World War for a shopping centre display.

An international research team has discovered new fragments of the Spanish ship La Purisima Concepcion, shipwrecked in 1765 on the coast of the southern Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, officials told Efe.

When developer MDM Group managed to yank away from Miami's historic preservation board last week the question of what to do with the discovery of a significant prehistoric Tequesta Indian village site, they moved the ball into a potentially more advantageous court - the political, deal-making world of the City Commission.

Now the state's archaeologists are going back for more. On Monday morning, a 23-foot boat will sweep sonar waves and a magnetic-field instrument over a half-mile stretch of the river near Kinston, searching for parts of the Confederate ship, including a propeller, an anchor and a cannon.

March is Florida Archaeology Month, can you dig it? The Florida Anthropological Society has partnered with the Department of State and the Division of Historical Resources to host events around the Panhandle celebrating Florida's history.

Hopi tribal elder Lawrence Keevama speaks with French attorney Pierre Servan-Schreiber and Sam Tenakhongva, Hopi Kachina Society leader, at the Hopi tribal offices in Flagstaff, Ariz.

Excavators working in the city of Cusco have discovered a burial site containing five individuals from the Marcavalle culture, a pre- Inca society.

Another page may be added to St. Augustine's historical legacy this spring once archaeologists explore an uncharted area of the nation's oldest colony.

PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3 They're human remains but these found in Peru are particularly special.

Archaeologists from the Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, Queens University Belfast pictured during excavations in the remains of the Great Hall in Carrickfergus Castle.

A DOG walker took a step back in time during his routine stroll, finding footprints thought to be 7,000 years old.

The aircraft with cutting edge technology will search for archaeology hidden beneath the South Downs National Park's ancient woodland between March 10-15.

Artist David Rau created "As Seen From Above" for the Chester Historical Society's Unearthed in Chester Challenge & Reception.