Jan 02 U.S. returns looted 2,500-year-old sarcophagus to Egypt By Associated Press Egyptian officials say an ancient wooden sarcophagus that was featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences has been returned to Egypt after U.S. authorities determined it was looted years ago. Continue reading
Dec 20 Archaeologists excavate ‘Jesus’s midwife’ tomb in Israel By Associated Press The Israeli antiquities authority says archaeologists are excavating an ancient tomb traditionally associated with Jesus's midwife in the hills southwest of Jerusalem. Continue reading
Dec 09 Unlocking the oldest known DNA revealed a ‘lost’ Greenland from 2 million years ago By Maddie Burakoff, Associated Press Today, the northern tip of Greenland is a barren Arctic desert, but back then it was a lush landscape of trees and vegetation with an array of animals, even the now extinct mastodon. Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch 8:15 Smithsonian and U.S. Army join forces to save works of art and culture threatened by war By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport A new collaboration between the U.S. Army and the Smithsonian Institution is expanding the numbers and capabilities of monuments officers in times of war. Their mission is to advise military commanders on how to minimize damage to art and key… Continue watching
Oct 08 Remnants of Black church uncovered in Colonial Williamsburg By Ben Finley, Associated Press The brick foundation of one of the oldest Black churches in the United States has been unearthed by archeologists at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. Continue reading
Aug 25 Rock fall at Grand Canyon reveals ancient animal footprints By Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press They say the creature that made the tracks is something like a modern-day chuckwalla lizard that strolled in sand dunes in a coastal plain more than 300 million years ago. Continue reading
Apr 09 Scientists discover evidence for Neanderthal handiwork By Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press Scientists have found the first direct evidence that Neanderthals could make string. Continue reading
Oct 28 Cradle of modern human life found in Botswana…maybe By Nsikan Akpan The motherland of all motherlands has been genetically pinpointed in northern Botswana, but is it truly the source of modern humans?… Continue reading
May 16 Why it’s so hard to grasp the sum of the Islamic State’s archaeological looting By Fiona Greenland, James Marrone, Oya Topçuoğlu, Tasha Vorderstrasse, The Conversation Looted artifacts are believed to be a significant source of income for the Islamic State, but it is difficult to apply a dollar value to historic sites. Now, a paper in the International Journal of Cultural Property offers the first… Continue reading
Apr 13 Watch 9:38 The hunt is on for the last slave ship to arrive in the U.S. By Megan Thompson, Mori Rothman Archaeologists are analyzing data from a survey of Alabama’s Mobile River, looking for the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in America. The ship's survivors were enslaved for a few years before forming a unique community, Africatown. Clotilda… Continue watching