Chinese archaeologists work at the Mingtepa site in Uzbekistan Photo: Courtesy of Liu Tao. China's overseas archaeological ...

Discovered off the coast of Spain, the ship was evidently smuggling cannons and silver ingots.

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In Norway’s highest mountains, experts are scouring perilous terrain for pieces of the past, long stored in mint condition in ...

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 ...

Archaeologists send a drone down a medieval well on the site of a £15m regeneration project. Bones of men and women were discovered on land being developed by a housing association. A standing stone ...

The Namibian genocide was one of the first genocides of the 20th century. Between 1904 and 1908, tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people were killed under German colonial rule. Despite the ...

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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 Department of Anthropology and Archaeology has an international 'four-field' approach, combining archaeology with evolutionary, social and linguistic anthropology. Our key strengths lie in our ...

Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small companion galaxies, slowly building up the bright central region and sweeping ...

The stone carving could be thousands of years old, possibly from the Bronze Age.