Archaeology News

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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Some 170 archaeologists and workers have spent the last year excavating a 3,000-year-old site in a rural area near the Colombian capital of Bogota.

A cellar that was falsely described as Holland's oldest mikvah features a forged etching of a Jewish menorah, a prominent Dutch archaeologist said.

When I saw that there was going to be a program on Nat Geo TV called "Diggers" I wondered aloud if they were going to feature great excavations of the past like Morris at Aztec, Hodge at Hawikuh or Morley in the Maya lowlands.

Please join us in welcoming the CosticA Acsinte Archive to The Commons . CosticA Acsinte was a Romanian war photographer born on July 4th, 1897.

On Monday, the Royal College of Surgeons in London launched an online database of skeletal specimens showing some of the most grotesque conditions suffered by long-dead Britons.

Sometimes a portal opens into the world of legend. A stone is rolled away from an Egyptian tomb revealing a 3,300 year old Pharaoh's power and wealth.