The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius froze the ancient Roman city in time, giving modern-day humans a remarkable vision into the past Clara and André Malraux conspired to loot the pink temple of Banteay Srei, ...

According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

In an unprecedented discovery that has stunned archaeologists and historians alike, metal detectorists in Norway have unearthed the country's largest-ever Viking Age coin hoard. Found in a field near ...

A 1.37-inch inscription could upend our understanding of the religion’s spread.

When the city of Boston’s staff archaeologists open volunteer sign-ups for one of their historic site digs, demand rivals a ...

Throughout our time on Earth, we humans have created some pretty cool stuff.

Nearly 250 years after 6,000 American and French soldiers marched together through Connecticut to Yorktown to deal the final blow in the Revolutionary War, 29 high school students from both countries ...

Jessica Goon ’19 applies all she learned inside and out of the classroom at SUNY Cortland to her work of making the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, N.Y. come alive for its numerous ...

ANTH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. 13 After Processualism14 The Future; Glossary: Archaeological Sites and Cultural Terms; References; Index; Beginnings; A Past "Five ...

MOSCOW, Idaho – Archaeology, often thought the purview of exotic locales and ancient history, can also investigate the recent past close to home. To make the field more accessible, University of Idaho ...

FORT STOCKTON, Texas — Fort Stockton had some researchers and students from Texas Tech on Oct. 21, but they weren't there just to visit. They were there to conduct research. This was all in an effort ...

(See Cover) Even as his spaceships reach toward the future and the stars, modern man is more concerned than ever with his past on his own planet. From China to Peru, diggers are everywhere. And ...