A new study from Bar-Ilan University is shedding light on a long-overlooked social group in archaeology: the elderly. While research on women and children has flourished in recent decades, older ...

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis—not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass cases ...

Thousands of similar tunnel systems have been discovered across Europe and despite this, their purpose has been subject to decades of theory and debate.

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of ancient Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt — a first for one of Eastern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists working on a dig site in the country of Georgia have discovered a 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone. The Orozmani ...

Indiana Jones and Lara Croft have a lot to answer for. Public perceptions of archaeology are often thoroughly outdated, and these characterisations do little to help. Yet archaeology as practiced ...

For several years, Cambridge University’s archaeology department has partnered with the local charity Cambridge Past, Present ...

According to a statement released by the Hull City Council, a cast iron cannon was unearthed in the city’s Queen’s Gardens. A team of local contractors had been excavating a space for a stormwater ...

The newly renovated archaeology laboratory, which includes a new classroom, forensic anthropology lab space, and more, is ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Technological University is inviting people to take a new course, Archaeology Field School, this fall. Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Historical Archaeologist and ...

Authorities examining the rock where the petroglyphs have been discovered. (YouTube Screenshot) The municipality is often presented as a rock-art hotspot within the state, and Heritage Daily notes ...

Scantily clad tomb raiders and cloistered scholars piecing together old pots -- these are the kinds of stereotypes of archaeology that dominate public perception. Yet archaeology in the new millennium ...