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ICA, Peru - A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city's edge.

The U.S. Forest Service has begun to uncover the remains of a fort used to temporarily house the migrating Cherokee on the Trail of Tears, more than 170 years ago.

Long-hidden art and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean are on display for the first time in years at the University of Michigan's newly expanded Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

To most of the world, the image of an archaeological dig comes from the movies. You remember: in the first Indiana Jones movie, there's an iconic moment when Indy is standing at the archaeological site in Tanis, peering through a theodolite, with hundreds of Nazi-paid workmen around him.

HAWASS REQUESTS RETURN OF NEFERTITI, EGYPTIAN QUEEN HELD IN BERLIN, GERMANY By Kwame Opoku, Dr.

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.

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.

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.

In an excavation conducted in late October, about 100 meters north of the Old City wall of Acre, a unique find was discovered from the Crusader period in the 13th Century; a hoard of 350 marble items that were collected from destroyed buildings.