The Roman orator Cicero declared that history was the “light of truth.” I wanted to become an archaeologist because I was convinced that archaeology could shed that light on all of human history — not ...

Your image of archaeology might include an Indiana Jones lookalike in a leather coat or lots of painstaking digging for artifacts. And, for much of the history of Historic Jamestowne, you’d be close.

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Kent State University archaeologist Michelle Bebber, along with several colleagues, answered a question it never even would have occurred to me to ask. Why did no prehistoric cultures ever make their ...

Coronavirus interrupts excavation projects across Israel. The nation’s leading evangelical archaeology program is closing, partly in response to COVID-19. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary ...

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—According to a Science Magazine report, primatologist Nathaniel Dominy of Dartmouth College and his colleagues analyzed the chemical composition of teeth from mummified baboon ...

Specialist in art, architecture and archaeology of ancient Rome wins 2021 Excellence in Teaching Award from Archaeological Institute of America Diane Conlin, associate professor of classics emerita at ...

Every year, archaeologists dig up and analyze clues about how our ancient ancestors lived, what threats they faced, and how they adapted to sometimes harsh environments.

For US archaeologists, major discoveries will have to wait until next year, at least. Dale Manor had a plan for 2020: Unearth an ancient Canaanite shrine in the lowlands of Judah, about 20 miles west ...

While some museums—including the Bowdoin College Museum of Art—are organizing online exhibitions as a way to safely share art during the pandemic, students in Ambra Spinelli's spring archaeology class ...

Jews first settled in the Polish town of Wieliczka during the fourteenth century, when they were granted the right to extract salt from the vast local mine. A Jewish population continued to live in ...

Technological advances are allowing archaeologists to take a wider, yet closer, look at ancient sites, opening up long-hidden evidence about the societies of the people who lived there. Tomos Evans is ...