The most important archaeological discoveries didn’t just add objects to museum cases. They changed how we understand entire ...

The location of the discovery implies that the amulet traveled over a whopping 1,000 miles, likely via trade.

A buried seaside villa near Naples has yielded a painted room where frescoes show herons striding across black and red walls, ...

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis—not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass cases ...

Through BYU Department of Anthropology ’s Archaeology Field School, students have the opportunity to participate in excavation, gain hands-on experience and create lasting memories. The field school ...

Excavations for a new highway tunnel near Stonehenge have unearthed two burial sites and what may have been an industrial workstation. An ancient burial site found near Stonehenge during excavation ...

Almost 2,000 years after his death, the man's skeleton still had a two-inch nail piercing its foot. The skeleton has a nail piercing its foot, perhaps the best-preserved archaeological evidence of ...

UNC-Chapel Hill professor Jodi Magness recently wrapped up 11 seasons of archaeological excavations at an ancient Jewish synagogue at a village in Israel called Huqoq. Back in 2012, her team uncovered ...

An archaeology student from the US state of Florida has discovered a rare 9th-century gold object during her first excavation in the UK. The student, Yara Souza, unearthed a gold medallion from the ...

However, that hasn’t happened, and since Dr. Priscilla Renouf and Jim Tuck retired and passed away, the current makeup and expertise of the faculty means a greater focus on historical research and ...

Seyyed Ahmad Barabadi, director general of cultural heritage, tourism and handicrafts in South Khorasan, said the excavation aims to document urban stratigraphy and obtain subsurface archaeological ...

TN archaeology dept sent 45 excavation proposals for Centre's nod: Govt to Parliament ...