Anthropology News

A sewer plant expansion project has turned up some unlikely things in Hartford -- including artifacts that could be thousands of years old.

London, November 7 : A bust of Julius Caesar, recovered from the Rhone riverbed, is now on display as part of an exhibition of artefacts discovered in the bed of the Rhone river over the last 20 years, at a museum in southern France.

London, November 7 : An archaeology professor has discovered the missing legs of a 900-year-old Buddhist statue deep in the Cambodian jungle, rewriting history in the process.

A Travis County murder trial ended in a hung jury Thursday after a defense lawyer argued that his client shot a man in defense of his home, according to lawyers in the case.

The beginning of chocolate is the cacao tree, known by ethnobotanists as "theobroma cacao." According to the article, " Introduction: Chocolate's History at a Glance ," chocolate in its raw state grows in a pod like a pea, but on trees 40-60 feet tall.

Three men, including the board member of an auction house, have been arrested on Gotland in connection with the plunder of hundreds of Viking -era silver artifacts from the Baltic Sea island, Sveriges Radio reports.

CHRIS CAROLA Archaeologists digging at proposed NY-Vt. ferry site, home to 18th-century military ruins ALBANY, N.Y. - ALBANY, N.Y. a ' A New York archaeological team began work Friday on a state-owned campground at an 18th-century military site where a temporary ferry service is being considered to replace the closed Champlain Bridge, officials ...

PEOPLE are being invited to have a dig at Crawley as a man who thinks the town's not so famous history still rocks plans to open its first ever archaeology course.

State Police are still unsure what killed a man who's decomposed body was found along Rt.

Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years.

When Degi, a 24-year-old web designer in Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, hit a pedestrian in July 2008 with his Daewoo sedan, his luck took a turn for the worse.

Earlier this week, France learned that Claude Levi-Strauss, a leading anthropologist and a member of the elite Academie Francaise, had died aged 100.

GENOA -- Forget Indiana Jones. Professor Artie Facts and his archaeological expedition are coming to Genoa Civic Theatre this month in the comedy/mystery, 'Evil Doings at Queen Toot's Tomb.' The play, which is the first in the season's 'Death by Laughter' series, opens Friday.

An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up more artifacts that he believes pinpoint part of the trail of the 16th century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

With Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, Jared Hess established himself as a director with a distinctive visual style, a fixation on oddball characters and a love of awkward comedy.

It has sun, history and a certain air of adventure. But you don't often find Iraq on the list of a holidaymakers' dream destinations.

Entry sign on King Tut's tomb. Photo by Molly McCahan. It was 87 years ago today when British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the entrance to King Tut's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt.

Hereford United are waiting to find out the results of an archaeological dig underneath the Blackfriars End at Edgar Street.

The French philosopher and anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who's credited with helping shape Western thinking about ancient civilisations, has died at the age of 100.

TWO sixth-form pupils from King Alfred School in Highbridge took part in an archaeology project near Kilve.