Undergraduates in a Harvard anthropology course have begun excavating Harvard Yard, the area between Harvard Hall and Holden Chapel, for the twentieth year of the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project.

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

In celebration of the Day of the Dead, the Penn Museum hosted a "Dia De Los Muertos" culture fest for the fourteenth year.

While filming the first episode of her show “Hidden Wonders”, TV personality Sandi Toksvig and Bournemouth University ...

The UO's Museum of Natural and Cultural History is helping shift the way archaeology happensStory and photos by Lexie Briggs ...

Nevada Humanities is partnering with the Desert Research Institute on a new series of events in Reno and Las Vegas.

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

A monumental 5,000-year-old structure has been uncovered by archaeologists in northern Iraq. The excavation at Kani Shaie in ...

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...

(This is the third of a series of essays on the unique contributions of the humanities program at the University of Guam to the island and the wider Pacific region.) Every semester, when we begin a ...

The discovery prompted an international search to figure out how the ancient headstone made it to New Orleans.

In the heart of Quinhagak, a storm's fury unearthed secrets long held by the permafrost, leaving a tapestry of history ...