Archaeology News

It's not often that people from thousands of years ago can shed light on modern man, but it turns out that Egyptian mummies, like the ones at the Cincinnati Museum Center, are revealing secrets through new technology.

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.

Archaeologists warn that the Taliban are destroying Pakistan's ancient Gandhara heritage and rich Buddhist legacy as pilgrimage and foreign research dries up in the country's northwest.

Archaeologists from USC, UCLA and the Middle East have developed a searchable online map that details 7,000 archeological sites in the Holy Land, a list that may become important in political line-drawing, it was reported today.

The Austrian Archaeological mission from the Austrian Archaeological Centre in Egypt unearthed a fragment of a cuneiform seal impression dating to the last decades of the Babylonian Kingdom.

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.

CUSCO, Peru-Cusco, the golden city of the Incas, sprawls across the hillsides of the high Andes Mountains.

Artifacts from the shipwreck of what's believed to have been Blackbeard's flagship will be shown off in an eastern North Carolina lab.

I grew up wondering through the woods of the Northeast Kingdom on an endless search for arrowheads, old bottles and rusted metal.

Archaeologists trying their luck at the future site of a Philadelphia casino have hit it big.

A proposed jail facility west of Palm Springs would pose few significant risks to the local area, according to an environmental assessment released today by Riverside County officials.

The resting place of the USS Westfield is being disturbed to retrieve what's left of the Civil War-era vessel from a Texas ship channel.

The boat, authorities said, went over a small dam and overturned. The men, both in life vests, plunged into the 38-degree water.

Slate ponders how to communicate the danger of radioactive waste to the far future.

A 7-day Belize trip lets women discover Mayan ruins, explore an eerie ceremonial cave, snorkel with sting rays, meet village locals, and more.

Medieval buildings, a WWII flying boat, Nevern Castle and coastal archaeology are all hot topics at tomorrow's Archaeology Day School hosted by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority.

There's a new show opening up at the New Mexico History Museum . Okay, actually, it sounds really cool.

The Mesolithic site may date from as early as 9000 BC, by which time hunter-gatherers had reoccupied the region after the last ice age.

"Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor" featuring the largest number of terra cotta figures ever to travel to the United States for a single exhibition, will open on Nov.

An ancient Persian stone relief in Persepolis, Iran. Corbis ENLARGE + In 525 BC, the Persian Emperor Cambyses dispatched 50,000 of his soldiers to lay waste to an oasis temple in the Sahara desert because its oracle had spoken ill of his plans for world domination.