Archaeology News

“The first week has gone really well. We have broken through to these key features. "It is a slow process but at the moment everything is going exactly to plan.”

Professor Darvill explains what is happening at the Stonehenge dig Archaeologists carrying out an excavation at Stonehenge say they have broken through to a layer that may finally explain why the site was ... via BBC

“We're filling in a picture of who the first Australians were and what they were doing where they were really, really early”

Asia Pacific News.Net Tuesday 8th April, 2008 Washington, April 8 : Archaeologists have unearthed ancient knives that date back to at least 35,000 years, in a rock shelter in Australia's remote northwest, ... via Asia Pacific News .Net

Recent findings by a Russian-American research team suggest that prehistoric cultures were hunting whales at least 3,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than was previously known. via Nerve News

Cracking the Maya Code is a definitive look back at how a handful of pioneers, from the 16th century to the present, deciphered the intricate system of hieroglyphs developed by the Maya. via WGBH

“But then we quickly decided we better go down and check it out.”

Working in secret, federal archaeologists have dug up the remains of dozens of soldiers and children near a Civil War-era fort after an informant tipped them off about widespread grave-looting. The exhumations, ... via Middletown Journal

“They're all good, but some are better than others”

Holding an oblong-shaped rock in her hands, Viki Bonewitz spoke of a persistent mystery that was finally solved Sunday by the Little Turtle Archaeological Research Society. via Fort Wayne News-Sentinel

“Who knows what else might turn up in the near future.”

The pace of development in the Pilbara region, where Aboriginal tools at least 35,000 years old were found at a proposed mine site, could lead to further significant archaeological finds. via The West Australian

“There was nothing like it in U.S. history until well past the colonial period”

It's so much a part of the landscape that metro-east residents often don't even notice it, except when a visiting relative notices: 'Look, there's the mound.'

Rising from what once was an endless grass sea parted by the Mississippi River, Monks Mound isn't even named after the Native American Indians who built it centuries ago, but the Trappist monks who lived there for only five years in the 19th century.

No one knows what the long-vanished people who built the mounds called themselves, much less what they named their terraced mound. Archaeologists call them the Mississippians, and their lives continue to be a mystery whose clues are buried in the mounds scattered throughout the metro-east and far beyond. Read more

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“It's a great adventure and a huge challenge.”

A filmmaker is re-creating a treasure-gathering voyage of Egypt 's greatest female pharaoh, and a Florida State archaeology professor is designing the boat. via Egyptology News

“Further work on this site is most important.”

ANCIENT Aboriginal tools found on a Pilbara mine site in Western Australia have been dated at 35,000 years - among the oldest so far discovered in Australia. via The Sydney Morning Herald

A Morehead State University historian is leading an archaeological search at Blue Licks, the site of a Revolutionary War battle some 225 years ago. via WXIX-TV Cincinnati

“There's no question as to what these guys are up to”

Posted on 04/02/2008 9:46:19 AM PDT by blam 3,000-year-old ivory carving depicts whaling scene From ANI London, April 1: Archaeologists working in the Russian Arctic have unearthed a remarkably detailed ... via Free Republic

“We believe that nearly 30,000 raw carvings and such invaluable scriptures of the Buddha-age have been found where the Bhasha dam is being built”

Islamabad, April 4 : Archaeologists have discovered rare Buddha relics from the Diamer-Bhasha dam site in Pakistan. via Karachi News.Net

The Ruins is, with one major caveat, about as good an adaptation of Scott Smith's best-selling novel as Hollywood was ever going to make. via Arkansas Online

“Everything has been taken from Trajan's Forum. The close-circuit television cameras are pointless, and the gates are practically non-existent. Even a child could climb over them”

London, April 4: Archaeologists have said that tourists visiting Rome are taking away mementoes from important historical structures, thus stripping the city of its ancient past. via Daily India

“People probably came either by boat or maybe even walking along the West Coast”

Old bones are telling new tales Hold the potty humor, please, but archaeologists digging in a dusty cave in Oregon have unearthed fossilized feces that appear to be the oldest biological evidence of humans in ... via The Seattle Times

“You can see Jerusalem from Ramat Rachel, but when you're inside Jerusalem's City of David, you can't see Ramat Rachel at all”

Dr. Oded Lipschits, from Tel Aviv University's Department of Archaeology, directs Ramat Rachel, an archaeological dig two miles from the Old City of Jerusalem. via EurekAlert!

A pipi midden discovered in Tauranga could be hundreds of years old. Middens are ancient rubbish sites that usually consist of a range of shellfish eaten and discarded by pre-European Maori. via Tvnz.co.nz

“All previous work has drawn a blank on what the tablet is about. It is such a big jigsaw and the pieces we have found fit together so well that I think we have a definitive proof”

London, Mar 31 Scientists claim to have solved the mystery of a giant asteroid impact on Austrian Alps more than 5,000 years back, by deciphering an ancient clay tablet. via Express India