Archaeology News

Carrickfergus Castle, in County Antrim, dates back to Anglo-Norman times and was in constant military use for almost 800 years Experts from Queen's University Belfast and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency have been excavating trenches at the site since early last month.

Bhubaneswar, March 11: Anthropologists, who are excavating a site near Banga village in Harirajpur gram panchayat area on the city outskirts, have found a 5-ft tall skeleton, which, they claim, belong to the Neolithic-Chalcolithic era.

Archaeologists are the latest group to weigh into a controversial iwi consultation rule, saying most of the thousands of affected sites have not been evaluated.

Anyone in northern Beaufort County interested in archaeology can attend a meeting of the Archaeology Society of South Carolina Beaufort at noon March 24 in the children's programming room at the Beaufort library on Scott Street.

Illicit treasure hunters may have stolen some of the most precious finds from the site of Suffolk's "village of the kings".

There has been much research into the factors that have influenced the human genome since the end of the last Ice Age.

Less than two weeks after accusations surfaced that El-Ad was taking over the Jerusalem Archeological Park and the Davidson Center without a legal tender to implement a right-wing agenda, an appeal has been filed to halt the transfer.

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.