Digging for archaeology photos in National Geographic’s archive. 1 of 13. Man of La Venta Archaeologists study a colossal Olmec stone head in La Venta, Mexico in this 1947 National Geographic photo.

She and colleague Jason Ur of Harvard University have spent years puzzling together U-2 spy plane images to see traces of the ancient world. Some of what they have found is now on view at the ...

Mofe Adeniyi, 10, Laurel (left) and Kennedy Andrew, 10, Columbia (right) wash artifacts at Archaeology Camp. The artifact is part of a 200 year-old glass candlestick.

When you think “archaeology” do you think “U.S. Army Corps of Engineers?” Probably not. Archaeology brings up images of Indiana Jones, dusty tombs and getting chased out of caverns by ...

The city of Boston’s Archaeology department shared three photos of a rusty, circular lead object with irregular notching between its teeth in a tweet Tuesday morning.

A gallery of images of the Nazca Lines in Peru. The Nazca Lines, a group of hundreds of mysterious geoglyphs etched into the desert in Peru, have mystified scientists for nearly a century.

A group of archaeologists from EAC Archaeology conduct a dig in front of the Hammond Harwood House on Maryland Avenue as part of a cultural landscape study. (Paul W. Gillespie/Staff photo) ...

These images are of a tube-shaped bead made of bone that is about 12,940 years old. The bead was discovered at Wyoming’s La Prele Mammoth site by UW archaeology Professor Todd Surovell and his ...