CUDDALORE: Ancient artefacts, including an anjanakol (a stick used by women in ancient times to apply eye kajal) and circular ...

Excavations in Benin, Nigeria, have uncovered a record of the Kingdom, revealing royal quarters, shrines, and layers from the ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

The developer hired a company to conduct an archaeological investigation on the property, but an independent review by a separate local archaeological firm has found the work to be incomplete.

A remarkable discovery in Crete has reinvigorated debate over the origins behind the ancient Greek myth of the labyrinth.

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

Pre-construction archaeological work at Benin City, Nigeria. Excavation of two building plots for the Museum of West African Art, Benin City, Nigeria, provides new perspectives on the Kingdom of Benin ...

Isotope and trace element analyses of human tissues provide archaeologists with unique opportunities to make unprecedented ...

Sikinos (ancient Oinoe or Oenoe) is one of the smaller islands of Greece, located in the southern part of the archipelago ...

IAG Cargo, in partnership with Iberia, has transported more than 450 artefacts from Mexico City to Madrid for the exhibition “Half the World: Women in Indigenous Mexico”. The shipment was carried on ...

Undergraduates in a Harvard anthropology course have begun excavating Harvard Yard, the area between Harvard Hall and Holden Chapel, for the twentieth year of the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project.