Researchers at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (KNUST) have recovered what they describe as Ghana’s first musket balls discovered at a colonial fort by Ghanaian ...

Meg explains geophysics and how it can help archaeologists peak beneath the soil. Meg explains the basics of geophysics and how it can help archaeologists see underground without digging. This ...

Jarred Burks, director of archaeological geophysics for Ohio Valley Archaeology Inc., walks along a designated area of Mound Cemetery Monday. The company has been contracted by the City of Marietta to ...

Archaeology sometimes raises more questions than it answers. How do you explain a city that bustled with activity one day only to be buried under feet of silt the next? Or walls that collapsed in an ...

A pair of "extremely rare" structures from the early medieval period and evidence of a Roman settlement have been uncovered in the United Kingdom. The remains were identified during an excavation this ...

JAMESTOWN — Historic changes are occurring at the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, and not all of the colonial sort. Last month, former senior staff archaeologist Sean ...

I love the element of discovery, the fact that archaeology is underpinned by science, and the interdisciplinarity. Unlike other more rigid disciplines, we tend to borrow freely. While there is a firm ...

The remains of an ancient Roman villa measuring more than 200 feet in length have been uncovered in the United Kingdom. The villa, thought to date to the 2nd century, lies in the county of ...