Archäologie

THE department of archaeology at the University of York is to host a European photographic exhibition depicting the day-to-day work of archaeologists from next week.

Cornell University plans to catalog and display its 1,500-piece ancient coin collection online.

When it comes to human evolution, Europe and the Near East are crucial places: Europe has the first cave art, and the Near East has the first sightings of modern humans out of Africa, for example.

An engineering firm that has received more than $8 million in city funds to manage a waterfront transit center project in Hercules failed to anticipate a call for more archaeological work that state and federal officials say is routine.

On Saturday, Jan. 28 at 2 p.m., the public is invited to attend "Paleolithic Paintings: Art and Science Inside Chauvet Cave," a presentation by Zach Zorich, senior editor with Archaeology Magazine.

UNESCO has recently collaborated with a Tunisian association, Atlel, to set up an action program for the protection and preservation of neglected Roman sites in Deguech, Tozeur.

China's extraordinary historical treasures are under threat from increasingly aggressive and sophisticated tomb raiders, who destroy precious archaeological evidence as they steal irreplaceable relics.