The president of Mexico called the discovery of a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca the "most significant archaeological ...

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Journey across tens of thousands of years in Deep Time Journeys: A Cross-Continental Look at Early Human Archaeology, a webinar that uncovers the sweeping story of our earliest ancestors. Led by ...

Poverty Point is an archaeological site north of New Orleans that experts believe was a major trading hub sometime between 1700 B.C.E. and 1100 B.C.E. A new study proposes that the impressive ...

A Sudan desert burial site contained two clay vessels, one with the remains of a campfire. The campfire was probably part of a funeral ritual, and the remains—which likely held the scraps of a funeral ...

Robin Coningham is the co-editor of Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Protection and Community Engagement in South Asia ...

Writers in the Tang period described “golden armor,” but archaeologists had not previously had a physical example to examine. That gap is what makes this restoration notable: the conservation work ...

A child, hiker, or canoeist who picks up a single arrowhead is far more likely to encounter a teachable moment than criminal ...