Archaeology News

The 'Pompeii' of the Western Front: Bodies of 21 German soldiers buried alive in World War One trench found perfectly preserved in northern France 94 years later Men were killed when a huge Allied shell exploded above the tunnel in eastern France in 1918, causing it to cave in Scene likened to Pompeii after skeletal remains found in same positions ... (more)

Archaeologists and volunteers from the tribe have been digging and researching the movements of the tribe; they lived in Christian County for roughly ten years in the early 1800s.

Lee County is a goldmine for archaeologists with Native American artifacts dating back 10-thousand years.

With a weight that rivals a baby elephant, a meteorite that fell from space some 30,000 years ago is likely Britain's largest space rock.

Artefacts through to the Le Dynasty were discovered at the Lang Dao Pagoda by researchers from the Vietnamese Academy of Social Science and the Tuyen Quang Provincial Museum.

The remains of a buried ship have been found on a construction site at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.

While not quite as exciting as excavating buried treasure, the boffins of Channel 4's archaeological show Time Team have managed to dig themselves into an extraordinary hole.

The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle.

Flanked by waves of mountains and gray desert, the road leading from the Afghan capital to the ancient ruins of Mes Aynak ends abruptly at the foot of a dusty hilltop.

After having seen Athens and Corinth, I couldn't resist visiting one of the other great city-states of ancient Greece: Sparta .

The Hudson School will present a lecture on archaeology in New Jersey tomorrow night as part of its ongoing lecture and film series for adults, "Think Thursdays." Hoboken resident Brock Giordano will speak on some of the archaeological sites in New Jersey, which range from early Native American inhabitants to the first Dutch settlers who settled in ... (more)

MOST of the newly-discovered neolithic stone row at Mynydd y Betws falls outside construction work on the multi-million pound windfarm, according to county council chiefs.

For the second year running, Donegal's Slieve League Centre has won the Gold Award of Overall Excellence for Best Visit in Ireland.

But archaeologist Mick Aston has walked out of Time Team after 19 years - after producers hired a former model as the programme's co-presenter. Usually clad in a loud jumper, with his white hair blowing in the wind, Professor Aston was the show's site director who chose where to dig for the next historical discovery.

When Spanish conquistadors brought guinea pigs from South America to Europe , the tiny "curiosities" were bred as pets across a wide swath of Elizabethan societal classes, a new study suggests.

Eventually, the total destruction of civilization, the human race, and, indeed, the world is a near certainty.

This post originally started on twitter, three tweets about the Stonehenge/Google-Under-the-Earth project .

His Royal Highness, The Duke of Gloucester, will support the World Heritage Site bid by the twin monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow. The Duke, who is patron of Bede's World in Church Bank, Jarrow, will return to the museum to hear all about the latest developments over the bid and the museum itself.

Explore the underwater world of Lake Michigan through an exhibit of the photography of Wisconsin Historical Society underwater archaeologist Tamara Thomsen at the Wisconsin Historical Museum opening Tuesday, February 7. Surround yourself with the shipwreck stories of the steamers Continental and Francis Hinton and the schooners Rouse Simmons and ... (more)

An axe head found in a garden in Gloucestershire, which was claimed to be of Viking origin, is an 18th Century woodworking tool, experts have said.