Archaeology News

I am invited back to my old alma mater, the University of Sydney, to give a lecture on Majapahit Style to the Asian Art and Archaeology Society.

Stone tools made a million years ago. Colossal sculptures of ancient kings. A gold funerary mask and glove, sized for a young girl.

Landmark proposals to protect Colchester's heritage will significantly boost tourism and create a lasting legacy to the town's rich history, it was claimed last night.

An archaeological dig at a French and Indian War battleground in the southern Adirondacks has been given the green light.

The endangered Hooker's sea lion is among the invasive marine and plant life destroying a site of archeological interest on Campbell Island.

Authorities are searching for a middleman who is believed to have purchased guns for F. Glenn Miller Jr., the avowed anti-Semite accused of killing three people outside Jewish facilities last weekend.

Egypt's minister of antiquities says a team of Spanish archaeologists has discovered two tombs in the southern part of the country, one of them belonging to a writer and containing a trove of artifacts including reed pens and a bronze inkwell.

The paw prints and hoof prints of a few meddlesome animals have been preserved for posterity on ancient Roman tiles recently discovered by archaeologists in England.

WAM SHARJAH, 19th April, 2014 -- The Sharjah Museums Department recently explored the use of nuclear techniques in archaeology, specifically in determining the age of pottery, papyrus and mummies.

Agra, April 18 - While World Heritage Day was celebratd globally on Friday, Agra's residents seem unconcerned and indifferent to the Taj city's rich historical legacy.

It's being held at Marriott's Warehouse on the South Quay from Friday, April 25 to Sunday, April 27. The event begins with a talk by archaeologist Dr Clive Bond, chair of the West Norfolk and King's Lynn Archaeological Society, on industrial archaeology Lynn, the port and the railways in the late 1980s.

Growing up on a ranch outside Lewistown, Macie Ahlgren used to enjoy playing at a creek that ran through the ranch, near a rock wall.

Archaeology is science about distant, recent, current and future past based on the materiality as a main record.

Historians used the occasion of World Heritage Day on Friday to call for proper protection and conservation of the state's historical marvels.

Experts working to discover a Nazi labour camp operated during the occupation of Jersey say they have found evidence of the camp's structure.

President Franklin Roosevelt wasn't the only one impressed by Duke of Gloucester Street when he dedicated Colonial Williamsburg 's newly reconstructed 18th-century thoroughfare in 1934.

The Pyramids at Giza and the Great Sphinx were once isolated in the open desert, but they're now surrounded on three sides by Cairo's encroaching sprawl.

In a container filled with water is what appears to be an oddly shaped rock. But Morrand, who serves as senior conservator and manager of the Naval History and Heritage Command's Archaeology & Conservation Laboratory, knows the object isn't a rock.

Romania's Carpathian Villages are among the endangered places being spotlighting for this year's World Heritage Day April 18. / Global Heritage Fund In case it's not on your calendar, today is World Heritage Day .

UNESCO has designated April 18 as the International Day for Monuments and Sites and, marking the occasion, entry to a number of archaeological sites and ancient monuments will be free tomorrow.