Archaeology News

Frank Conakry, a/k/a DJ Soulpusher, recently spent three years living in West Africa for the sole purpose of crate-digging. He scoured 30-year-old private music collections and the homes of old musicians in ...

Dinasaurs [sic] are old. That much we knew. But a new find in a limestone quarry located in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt may show that they are fully 15 million years older than scientists ...

After a complex investigation involving archaeologists, plant pathologists and a DNA sample from Colorado, a mysterious set of human remains found in San Rafael has been identified as that of a despondent local ...

Recently I returned from a two-week trip to Israel. I joined 16 other participants for an exceptional tour of Biblical and archaeological places.

A team of Iranian archaeologists confirmed that the Sassanids used the ancient site of Bakhe-Nam as a permanent habitation.

This Fall, the Royal Ontario Museum presents Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine: the Remarkable Trypilian Culture , the world's first large scale exhibition uncovering the secrets of this ancient society which ...

A Bradford University archaeology student uncovered the body of an Australian soldier 90 years after he died in battle during the First World War, it has been revealed.

' A second historic canoe has arrived at the Oconee Heritage Center, joining a canoe found in the Chattooga River in 2002 in a preservation process and eventual exhibits at the museum.

The discovery is one of the largest and best-preserved Roman villas yet discovered in the country.

What began as a three-inch wide hole in the cement in the parking lot of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, has turned into a huge hole in the ground.

Archaeologists at America's first permanent English settlement are reporting the discovery of what they say are four significant finds.

For decades, Lee Tae-joon has wondered what became of his cousin, his childhood companion, who disappeared without trace at the start of the Korean War.

A team of archaeologists has unearthed ancient artifacts from the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Myanmar.

The remains of a sunken British whaling ship lost for 171 years have been found off Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Beneath the future site of a seven-story, $65 million behemoth, a slice of Binghamton history sleeps.

Excavation work has started to find the main gateway to Bihar's 2,500-year-old Nalanda University, considered to be one of the world's first residential universities.

DEFENCE force investigators may be a step closer to solving the mystery of Australia's last missing soldier from the Vietnam war.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have prised open the lid of a Roman tomb which has lain undisturbed for nearly 2,000 years.

Analyzing a typical pair of fragments to see whether they match is very fast, taking only a second or two.

Fifth Circuit Judge Kathleen Watanabe yesterday affirmed that construction may continue at the Wainiha homesite known to contain at least 30 iwi, or graves, while attorneys for the property owner, state and ...