Archaeology News

Mizoram is set to enter India's archaeological map for the first time as the Ministry of Culture issues a preliminary notification that seeks to declare a 9000 sq.m site that hosts 200 stone menhirs embossed with images of humans, animals and hunting scenes and several caves as a site of national importance.

Archaeologists digging in southern Turkey say they've discovered more than 600 stamp seals, cylinder seals and amulets left as religious offerings in an ancient sanctuary.

Archaeologists have uncovered more than 80 skulls of young women who may have been sacrificed 4,000 years ago in China.

The city of Heracleion was engulfed underwater 1500 years ago. This grand city had been mentioned by the Greek writer Herodotus, the 5th-century BC historian.

Jammu, Dec 6 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday said preservation of heritage and historic monuments is a task for which the society and the government are equally responsible.

Nestled between the headwaters of the Magdalena river and high Andean moorland, the ancient stone statues at San AgustA n are among the most mysterious pre-Columbian archaeological artefacts.

Lunar heritage sites such as Tranquility Base - shown here with Buzz Aldrin in 1969 - must be protected a but a US bill is not appropriate.

Artisans At Work celebrates its first year of existence this month. Join them for a congratulatory toast at the monthly First Friday event this Friday, Dec. 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. The regular party serves as the opening reception for each month's exhibition, which is following the theme of Cabinet of Curiosities for December.

Recently the press has noted that Steve Green , CEO of Hobby Lobby , announced that he was asking an Oklahoma high school to add a course on the Bible to their curriculum.

The war of narratives shaped itself as a "slam dunk" win for the Palestinian people and had the potential to change the lineup of forces in the struggle for a just solution to the crisis.

Wayne State University Assistant Professor of Archaeology Krysta Ryzewski, left, of the Tommy's Bar Speakeasy Project, at a secret tunnel that was used by the Purple Gang from 1916 to 1933.

When Powers Molinar reads some of the books that his son enjoys, he often finds himself thinking, "I would have done that differently."

NOAH'S FLOOD: EXPOSING THE BIBLICAL MYTHS III Spy Ghana.com, Ghana Dec 4 2013 'The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark': An Archaeological Quest? By Richard A. Fox Culled from the "Free Enquiry", Summer 1993:43-48 "Babylonia", written in Greek about 275 B.C.E., is lost, but later chroniclers quoted Berosus.

A University of South Carolina research archaeologist has been given permission to conduct a dig at a former Civil War prison camp on the site of the former Bull Street asylum.

When I traveled to Crete for the first time, nearly 25 years ago, I was fresh from my first brush with the landmarks of the classical age on the Greek mainland.

New research suggests that Neanderthals kept a tidy home. During excavations at a cave in Italy where a group of our closest known extinct relatives once lived, scientists say they found a strategically placed hearth and separate spaces for butchering and tool-making.

Three pueblo ruins exist near Mountainair, about 60 miles east of Albuquerque. They are Abo, Quarai and Gran Quivira.

Part of a trapezoidal city wall and moat from the 4,500-year-old Nanchengzi Ruins in Guzhen County have been uncovered, along with a great number of houses, according to archaeologists from Wuhan University.

A wall collapsed in the ruins of Pompeii this week, just the latest incident in a series of preservation woes for the ancient city, Reuters reported .

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