The classic image of an archaeologist is of someone unearthing a potsherd in Pompeii or opening a Viking grave to better ...

Routine excavations revealed much more than the researchers ever expected.

Archaeologists unearthed a Roman military camp from the year zero in Frankfurt, challenging the traditional narrative of ...

After years of shoveling his way through archaeological digs so intense that they injured his L5 vertebra, John Rutherford made his biggest discovery sitting in a cubicle west of Seven Corners in ...

The Kansas Historical Society’s archaeological field school this year gave volunteers a chance to dig into the state's territorial history at the site of an 1850s-era mansion near Lecompton. Just a ...

A joint archaeological project between Greece’s culture ministry and a Chinese team of researchers is breaking new ground.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An archaeology student had quite the reversal of fortune in the field. Yara Souza, a Florida native ...

Archaeologists are digging for artifacts at a pre-Revolutionary War site in Massachusetts, and the public is invited to view their work.Excavations around a free-standing outhouse at the Babson-Alling ...

HILTON HEAD, S.C. (WCIV) — Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park is inviting the public to participate in "Stories Surround Us: A Community Archaeological Experience" on Saturday, May 31, on Hilton Head ...

A griot is a storyteller who preserves and passes down history in stories and poems and songs. They’re part of West African culture but the term itself has a bit of colonialist irony in its aura — one ...