The team behind a large geophysical survey in Sitka, south-east Alaska, believe they have identified the location of a 19th-century Tlingit fort,…
An ancient Chinese-style bronze buckle found by a team from the University of Colorado Boulder in Alaska may prove the earliest evidence…
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC has withdrawn from hosting a controversial maritime exhibition. Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds was due…
Archaeologists in Yorktown, Virginia have found a well-preserved kiln site manufacturing fine stoneware pottery at a time when colonial pottery-making was banned:…
The Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure to be found in the UK, has gone on tour to America. more…
The cause of the sudden collapse in AD 1350 of the Viking settlement established in Western Greenland by Eric the Red in…
In Alaska, the cremated remains have been found of a three- year-old child who might have been one of the earliest inhabitants…
A well shaft that was dug by the first English colonists at Jamestown when they arrived in May 1607 was backfilled in…
First ‘unequivocal proof for pre-Clovis occupation of America’ has been found by researchers at Texas A&M University. Flint knife blades, chisels, and…
Not long after sunrise on 13 July 2010, two archaeologists descended a long aluminium ladder into a 25-ft deep pit immediately south…
Astonishingly, given the devastating events that took place at New York’s World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, archaeologists working at the…
The esoterica of kelp forests Kelp forests are near ubiquitous along the West Coast of North America, as anyone who has sailed…
Chicago is a very European city. With the wind whipping up Lake Michigan, it feels like Geneva on an autumnal day until…