Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction. Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre ...

In Visoko, Bosnia, hills were proclaimed to be the world’s oldest pyramids, older than Egypt’s. But decades of research reveal they are natural geological formations, not manmade structures. Despite ...

Contemporary historians tell us that, by the start of the Common Era, approximately three-quarters of the world’s population were living in just four empires (we’ve all heard of the Romans and the Han ...

When it was made: These masks date to at least the 16th century; the one photographed above dates to 1885. The Yup'ik people, whose ancestors arrived in southwestern Alaska around 800 years ago, are ...

More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusually well-preserved carved oak vessel were the skeletons ...

If you have ever seen any of the Indiana Jones movies, you surely know that archaeology is not only dangerous, but also exciting, enthralling, and generally exhilarating. That's not quite the case ...

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In the last session, we looked at the basics of what archaeology is and how excavation is done. But why even bother doing archaeology? All that research and excavation is difficult, time consuming, ...

Junior Archaeologists Edition (book reading and signing) Date/Time: Saturday, Nov. 1, 12-2 p.m. Location: Undercover Books, Gallows Bay St. Croix Indya the Archaeologist Meet Indya, a young explorer ...