Archaeology is fun. It’s so much fun that sometimes people do not treat it with the seriousness it deserves. Studying the past, through what people leave behind, can offer insights into some of the ...

At the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, the archaeology department has over 1 million artifacts from all over the ...

Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with the question, “So you want to study to be an archaeologist, go to graduate ...

Is Indiana Jones an archaeologist or a looter? Archaeologists dish on the adventurer before the movie premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny." When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The "backward-looking curiosity" -- Donkeys and pharaohs -- Reading ancient Egypt -- Digging into Nineveh -- Tablets and tunnelling -- The Maya revealed -- Axes and elephants -- A huge turning point - ...

At the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, the focus has historically been on the Mediterranean, with a smaller focus on the Americas. In recent years, the institute’s scope has ...

Why is archaeology so white? It’s a rhetorical question posed by black archaeologists over the decades; Bermudian Catherine Draycott is leading a discussion here on why so few people of colour get ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

For most people, the image that comes to mind at the mention of archaeology is ancient tombs or dinosaur fossils, not cutting ...