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(Image: Kenneth Garrett/NGS) Collecting tribal artefacts in the late 19th century, Harvard University's Peabody Museum sought to preserve a span of American history that 18th-century frontiersmen had tried to obliterate. By the end of the 20th century, the tribes wanted their things back. Thousands of ceremonial objects were returned before curators realised that earlier conservators [...]

Önder Bilgi talks about his discovery of a razor-sharp 4000-year-old scalpel and what it was originally used for Sophisticated skull surgery (Image: Istanbul University) Where are you digging?           At an early Bronze Age settlement called Ikiztepe, in the Black Sea province of Samsun in Turkey. The village was home to about 300 people at its [...]

Researchers found that the average size of the humped conch increased in conjunction with a growing human population. (Credit: Image courtesy of North Carolina State University) ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2010) — In a counter-intuitive finding, new research from North Carolina State University shows that a species of shellfish widely consumed in the Pacific over the [...]

Trevor Cox reveals how the acoustic footprint of the world's most famous prehistoric monument was measured Ready to rock (Image: Richard Nowitz/National Geographic/Getty) 3 more images Just after sunrise on a misty spring morning last year, my fellow acoustician at the University of Salford, Bruno Fazenda, and Rupert Till of the University of Huddersfield, UK, [...]

Sections of the Dead Sea Scrolls on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2008. Photograprh by Baz Ratner, Reuters The recent decoding of a cryptic cup, the excavation of ancient Jerusalem tunnels, and other archaeological detective work may help solve one of the great biblical mysteries: Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? The [...]

Archaeologists dig showing the excavated walls of the villa. Archaeologists have discovered a 4th Century Roman villa near Aberystwyth. It is the most north-westerly villa found in Wales and has forced experts to reconsider the whole nature of Roman settlement across mid and north Wales. Findings indicate Abermagwr had all the trappings of villas found [...]

Videographer Marty O'Farrell captures divers taking a core sample from the bottom of pool 6. (Credit: Rights-protected photo by members of the 2010 Village of Peace Archaeology project (VOPA)) ScienceDaily (July 22, 2010) — Steering clear of crocodiles and navigating around massive submerged trees, a team of divers began mapping some of the 25 freshwater [...]

People attend the annual summer solstice at the Stonehenge monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, southern England June 21, 2010.  Credit: Reuters/Kieran Doherty (Reuters) – Archaeologists have discovered a wooden version of British prehistoric monument Stonehenge at the same site, the project's leader told Reuters on Thursday. Using radar, the archaeologists found a circular ditch [...]

It has been more than 150 years since Capt Sir John Franklin and his 128 men perished in the Canadian Arctic, their ships lost in one of the greatest disasters of British polar exploration. Capt Sir John Franklin and his entire crew perished in the frozen Arctic. Now, a Canadian archaeological team is en route [...]

Mayan Treasures The artifacts discovered in the ancient tomb have been preserved for approximately 1,600 years. (Credit: Arturo Godoy) ScienceDaily (July 17, 2010) — A well-preserved tomb of an ancient Mayan king has been discovered in Guatemala by a team of archaeologists led by Brown University's Stephen Houston. The tomb is packed with carvings, ceramics, [...]