Archaeology News

Archaeologists working on the Athenree Homestead have uncovered a number of features associated with the earliest days of the landmark Western Bay of Plenty building.

Area counties get historical preservation grants The grants are worth up to $10,000 for a total of $420,777 given Check out this story on sctimes.com: http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2014/07/31/area-counties-get-historical-preservation-grants/13432285/ In Stearns County, St. Cloud State University was awarded $9,996 to hire an archaeologist ... (more)

Excavations at the World Trade Center site uncovered the remains of a ship built with timber harvested in the early 1770s.

Amazing UNESCO World Heritage sites in North America From Pennsylvania to Puerto Rico, these are places we can explore, understand and learn from the past.

Researchers conducting excavations in bogs near Skanderborg in eastern Jutland have uncovered evidence of what they believed to be ritual pagan violence inflicted on the corpses of some of the warriors who fell in a major battle during the Iron Age, sometime around the birth of Christ.

HARBOR SIDE PUT IN PLACE MUCH PRICELESS PIECE OF HISTORY. UP COVERED AFTER 300 YEAR UNDER THE SEA.

The remarkably rich heritage of Norfolk has seen more than 15,000 archaeological finds reported to council experts in just 12 months - a rate of about 40 a day.

Throughout estate lands across the country, archaeologists have been unearthing relics of an era when masters and labourers lived and worked respectively on the cocoa estate.

Research and recovery of historic shipwrecks experts Seafarer Exploration Corporation says that Seafarer's Quest, LLC has successfully been granted a three year research permit for the shipwreck site south of Cape Canaveral from the Florida Bureau of Archaeology Research.

Archaeologists have found an ancient fragment of ivory belonging to a 40,000 year old animal figurine.

A fishing trip to Orange Springs in 1960 introduced Alvin Hendrix to a hobby that would take him on underwater treasure hunts for the next 40 years.

A father and son found eight late Roman coins which archaeologists believe came from a hoard near Mildenhall, an inquest has heard.

Athens: A cup believed to have been used by Classical Greek statesman Pericles has been found in a pauper's grave in north Athens, Greece's top daily reports.

If someone walked into a museum and desecrated the artifacts on display, people would be upset.

The York County Department of Parks and Recreation and the York County Heritage Trust will present an archaeology program, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, at the Horn Farm Center for Agriculture, 4945 Horn Road, Hellam Township.

In Mexico City's Centro Historico are the remnants of the Templo Mayor, one of the main Aztec temples of their capital Tenochtitlan.

Overlooking the banks of a small lake in Middle Georgia is an enigma. It is a conical mound of white quartz fieldstones with tail feathers, wings and a head extending outward.

The Yomiuri Shimbun reports that rising seas and coastal erosion have exposed human bones on the Marshall Islands.

Archaeologists excavating near the McLean County Museum of History in Bloomington have unearthed part of the footprint of the 1836 courthouse where experts said Abraham Lincoln worked as an attorney.

Earlier this summer, a group of college students from upstate New York spent three weeks studying bones at an ancient archeological site in southern Albania.