As a professor of Christian archaeology and director of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum’s museum, he’s part of a 700-year-old Franciscan mission to look after and protect ancient religious ...

This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Archaeology is a messy business. Digging holes—in the dirt, in the sand, and in the rain forest—is essential.

A recent preliminary study by Ph.D. student Leonie Hoff of the University of Oxford, published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, provides insight into how ancient fingerprints left on ...

The object, found in Poole Harbour, is one of the oldest, most complete wooden spades ever found in the UK, dating back to ...

At Michigan Tech, Industrial Archeology—MS and Industrial Heritage—PhD (IEE) degree students use interdisciplinary studies of the material remains and social memories of industrial workplaces, ...

Greenberg, Raphael and Sulimani, Gideon 2024. Maintaining whiteness in archaeology: Hegemonic reproduction in academic versus state archaeological institutions in 21st century Israel. Education, ...

As part of Simon Fraser University's 50th Anniversary celebrations, the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology was proud to engage in a major renewal in our gallery. Throughout the Fall 2015 semester, ...

However, movies about archaeology don't fully capture what this profession is all about, according to archaeologists. Students must weigh future salary and career prospects against debt and lost ...

Experts from Littlehampton Museum believe the small gold plate may have been decoration on a sword. Researchers say their findings about King Arthur's Hall on Bodmin Moor are a "major revelation ...

Archaeology is the study of the artefacts and other physical evidence left by past societies of humans and closely related species. It uses scientific analysis of field samples to inform ...

Although these actors can have other iconic characters under their belt, there's no denying that a role becomes almost ...

Michael Galaty is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Director and Curator of European and Mediterranean Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the ...