Archaeology News

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.

AN archaeological dig at the site of a planned wind farm will not halt the development, planning officers have confirmed.

Ewyas Harold History and Archaeology Group has received a A 9,900 Sharing Heritage grant grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for its "Big Dig Ewyas" project.

Co-curators Liam McNamara, left, and Dr Paul Collins with a statue of the head of Tutankhamun made out of limestone during his reign between 1332 and 1322BC HIDDEN under the sand for centuries, this little statue will come face-to-face with thousands of visitors in Oxford.

With a sniff, archeologist Dale Walde assesses the pungent odour lingering in the air, then, nonplussed, continues toward Cluny Fortified Village, the site of an archaeological dig where a group of migrants lived and died 300 years ago.

Even in a town's earliest days, there is a need for rules and justice. An archaeological investigation at the 1767 Chowan Courthouse Green July 28 to 31 will search for the town's first courthouse, built in 1718.

An archaeological team, which has been assigned to reconstruct the ancient society of the 5200-year-old Burnt City in a new research project, have found several bizarre burials.