During the Cold War, the United States flew U2 spy planes over Europe, the Middle East, and central eastern Asia in search of potential military targets. These missions inadvertently gathered ...

During the 1950s and 1960s, as United States' U-2 spy planes criss-crossed the globe taking thousands of pictures of military infrastructure, they were also digging into the archaeological record.

The Egyptian-Dominican mission of the University of Santo Domingo working at the Taposiris Magna Temple in western Alexandria have uncovered 16 burial chambers in rock-cut tombs (burial shafts), a ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Paleolithic (between 45,000 ...

The well-publicized destruction of archaeological sites and museum exhibits by ISIS has garnered worldwide condemnation. Sites like Nineveh, Hatra, and Mosul have been the subject of concerted efforts ...

ALBANY — A team of archaeologists from Hartgen Archeological Association, Inc. led Capital Region school children on an archaeological dig at the Thomas Elkin Residence on Monday morning during a five ...