Anthropology News

Amira Edan, the director of Iraq 's National Museum, says that soon she will no longer have to worry so much that the famous institution remains closed to the public for fear of violence.

A strip of gold bearing a Biblical inscription, part of a hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure named 'The Staffordshire Hoard', is held by a member of museum staff at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in Birmingham, central England September 24, 2009.

Marine archaeologist Billy Morris sets up a pump for the dredge that Florida Public Archaeological Network divers used to explore a wreck off Bayport Park.

About halfway through a dig Tuesday in search of history, the archaeologists at Battery Park in Burlington had unearthed one hand-wrought nail.

The discovery of more human remains at a Guttenberg hospital construction site has shut the project down temporarily.

Authorities in Cleveland have asked a leading anthropologist and a forensic artist to help identify the remains of an 11th woman found inside the home of a suspected serial killer.

The British Museum says a massive haul of Anglo-Saxon gold found this summer by an unemployed amateur treasure-hunter has been valued at 3.285 million pounds .

From countless depictions of "Dracula" to recent movies like "Twilight" and "New Moon," the vampire has been a staple in books and film.

A Colonial-era skull believed to belong to a Revolutionary War soldier is set to be reburied Saturday with military honors.

Long before early American colonists in New England sat down with the natives to share a Thanksgiving feast in 1621, tribes of American Indians were enjoying their own feasts on river shores in Eastern North Carolina.

Like archaeologists who dig through the layers of dirt to unearth crucial pieces of the history of mankind, astronomers have been gazing through the thick layers of interstellar dust obscuring the central bulge of the Milky Way and have unveiled an extraordinary cosmic relic.

A centuries-old skull suspected to be that of a Revolutionary War soldier who died in Connecticut will be reburied with full military honors.

Archaeologists with the University of Tennessee say it will take another four weeks to finish excavating a woodland Indian village.

Automakers conduct all sorts of studies to determine which colours consumers will pick when buying a new car, but, sometimes, according to DuPont, psychology, cultural influences and science also play roles in colour preference.

After sheriff's deputies discovered human bones scattered around private property in Houston County recently, they turned to the Southeast Texas Applied Forensic Science Facility, also commonly referred to as STAFS or "the body farm" for help.

Maya murals found on the Yucatan peninsula, about 1,300 years old, bear images of commoners handling maize, clay vessels, and salt, rather than images of royalty and mystical animals.

In my July 2002 column and the preface to the revised and abridged version of my 1988 book, The Hindu Equilibrium, I noted the astonishing post-modern turn in Indian history, whose canonical book Imagining India by RB Inden claimed that caste was an invention of the colonial British Raj.

A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, researchers report.

A Blanding man accused of threatening an FBI source who was an informant in an archaeological artifacts bust earlier this year pleaded guilty in federal court Friday.

International gong festival disappoints with pop-style concert that neglects tradition.