Archaeology News

The intricately patterned mosaic was uncovered in the late 1950s on a new housing development in Moot Close, Downton.

A year and a half after Yale returned the last of hundreds of Machu Picchu artifacts to Peru, the Yale Peabody Museum faces a new charge of cultural theft - this time about two carvings from a native Alaskan tribe.

One of the men credited with finding the Confederate submarine, The Hunley, is adding another major underwater search to his resume.

This is one of the three copper masked infant male mummies found at the site. Each mummy was bound in four or five copper hoops two inches wide.

The discovery of a mysterious copper artefact at a Neolithic tomb on Anglesey could help to answer one of archaeology's burning questions.

Jesse Francis surveys a log being used in the building of the middle cabin of the Zumwalt's Fort reconstruction, while UMSL graduate student Marie Morgan prepares to hit the log with a sledgehammer.

This new permanent exhibition featuring more than 100 artifacts from the Battlefields Park archaeological collection shines a spotlight on how civilian and military life has changed over more than two centuries of history.

The University of Florida is hoping the millions of tourists who visit the Sunshine State each year will see more than the theme parks.

Academics restart work to unlock secrets of mystery medieval civilization with links to Persia on edge of the Siberian Arctic.

In this illustration, Christopher Columbus and his crew land at the island that he named San Salvador, in the modern-day Bahamas.

According to the website of Bulgarian State Agency of National Security , "it is a specialized body for counterintelligence and security and its chief responsibility is to detect, prevent and neutralize the threats to the Bulgarian national security".

Join Dr. Chester DePratter and his team from the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology for a tour of the Camp Asylum archaeological dig site on the Bull Street campus.

As expected, the team detected arsenic in the mummy's hair and in the soil. They also discovered skin conditions indicative of arsenic poisoning.

Dr. Bryan Hockett, lead archaeologist for the state Bureau of Land Management, discussed the cleanup at Hidden Cave east of Fallon.

DOHA: Students from Qatar and Gulf region learned principles and practices of maritime archaeology here at the first accredited course ever held in this region.

'Homeland Argyll and Bute' shows off the results of a project of the same name undertaken on Bute and Islay by Archaeology Scotland and Paul Duffy of Bute firm Brandanii Archaeology and Heritage.

Anthropologists study human language, culture, societies, biological and material remains, the biology and behavior of primates, and even our own buying habits.

Was "Mummy Lake," now known as Far View Reservoir, really an ancient Anasazi reservoir? Not according to new research, which claims the 12-foot deep circular brick structure at Mesa Verde National Park instead was created for ceremonial purposes.

Blackpot has become one of my favorite music and culture events in Acadiana, and coming back this year to cover the festival and its variety of sights and sounds was great.

Music has been called the universal language and noted as one of the things that make humans distinct.