Archaeology News

Archaeologist George Evans sifts dirt for artifacts at the archaeological dig near Buckeystown earlier this year.

A new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference ...

DEADWOOD, S.D. Muscatine native Jerry L. Bryant has two degrees from the University of Washington - but he doesn't have a high school diploma.

Thirty years to the month after King Tut first took San Francisco by storm, antiquity's most famous monarch will attempt to reprise the feat.

The authorities call it a Greek tragedy, but the graffiti artists who have increasingly left their mark on this ancient city and its monuments say they are simply responding to a different sort of muse.

Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla visit the Library of Ephesus antic museum, in IzmIr, western citiy of Turkey, 27 November 2007.

Tests of whether sodas such as Coke and Pepsi could be used as spermicides were among the many offbeat ideas celebrated at the 2008 Ig Nobel awards on Thursday.

Excavations at two regions in Vietnam have revealed findings from the Stone Age and Bronze age, which includes tombs and artifacts.

London, Oct 5: European scientists claim to have discovered that prehistoric cave paintings actually took up to 20,000 years to complete.

Tenor Placido Domingo's choice of a classical program peppered with local music and help from Mexican pianist and crooner Armando Manzanero appeared to smooth the controversy surrounding his Saturday concert at the Mayan pyramids of Chichen Itza.

The Spanish-born Domingo grew up in Mexico, and enthusiastic fans in the southern state of Yucatan erupted in applause on Saturday at his 'Concert of 1,000 Columns.' Many here see it like a homecoming; one of Domingo's first performances was in Yucatan in 1957.

Returning 2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winner Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee reiterates his findings on "Sword Swallowing and its Side Effects" at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

In Iraq's national museum a frieze shows Assyrian King Sargon II, who ruled an empire from what is now northern Iraq, storming a rampart as soldiers pile decapitated heads before him.

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico -- Police clashed with hundreds of villagers who seized the entrance to a Mayan archaeological site, and six protesters were killed, state officials said Saturday.

PHYSICS: Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith for proving that heaps of string or hair will inevitably tangle.

The whole family will "dig" archaeology after spending the day at the Michigan Historical Museum in downtown Lansing on Saturday, Oct.

The 'lost' beach where the Romans landed 2,000 years ago to begin their invasion of Britain has been uncovered by archaeologists.

Placido Domingo's concert at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza on Saturday night is being billed as "the world's greatest tenor at one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World," a claim few lovers of opera or ...

TV's Time Team at Salisbury Catherdral: Phil Harding, Mick Aston, Tony Robinson and Helen Geake.

The 2008 Ig Nobel winners, awarded Thursday at Harvard University by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine: NUTRITION: Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence for demonstrating that food tastes better when ...

Deborah Anderson had heard the urban legends about the contraceptive effectiveness of Coca-Cola products for years.