Photo provided to China Daily] Archaeologist Peng Xiaojun of the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social ...

Indiana Jones and Lara Croft have a lot to answer for. Public perceptions of archaeology are often thoroughly outdated, and these characterisations do little to help. Yet archaeology as practiced ...

Luke Auld-Thomas was deep in Google search results when he stumbled onto a laser survey that revealed an ancient Mayan city ...

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 ...

在仰韶文化发现和中国现代考古学诞生100周年之际，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平发来贺信，代表党中央向全国考古工作者致以热烈的祝贺和诚挚的问候。习近平希望广大考古工作者努力建设中国特色、中国风格、中国气派的考古学。

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 are digging beneath Notre Dame Cathedral to explore as far back as Roman Paris from 2,000 years ago ...

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 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 ...

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 ...