Community-led archaeology has uncovered the remains of an early medieval monastery in Argyll, western Scotland, identifying it as the high-ranking ecclesiastical center of Lios Mòr, previously known ...

Indiana Jones would struggle to obtain a modern excavation permit. Most archaeological breakthroughs occur far from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Often when people hear the word "archaeologist," they think of an iconic film character like Indiana Jones or Lara Croft. However, ...

The all-day programs offer opportunities to meet Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists and learn about ongoing excavations, ...

Beneath the myths of Oedipus and the Seven Against Thebes lies a Bronze Age superpower rivaling Mycenae itself, its treasure ...

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact ...

Autocracy wasn’t inevitable in early civilizations — many were more egalitarian. But when riches were there to monopolize, strongmen and inequalities emerged.

Gregson Schachner has been a professor of anthropology at UCLA for more than a decade. His scholarship focuses on ancient farming societies and transformations in leadership and social structure ...

JAMESTOWN — The Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation is inviting community members to celebrate Virginia Archaeology Month with ...

Scantily clad tomb raiders and cloistered scholars piecing together old pots -- these are the kinds of stereotypes of archaeology that dominate public perception. Yet archaeology in the new millennium ...