Archäologie

Julia Bussinger, director of the El Paso Museum of Archeology, 4301 Trans Mountain, stands near one of the museum's exhibits.

For decades, tourists visiting this popular Adirondack village could gape at the skeletons of soldiers from nearby French and Indian War sites.

A stone memorial from the 1950s marks where the remains of an unknown soldier from the French and Indian War lie near the Fort William Henry Memorial Cemetery at Fort William Henry in Lake George, N.Y., on Friday, Feb.

A stone memorial from the 1950s marks where the remains of an unknown soldier from the French and Indian War lie near the Fort William Henry Memorial Cemetery at Fort William Henry in Lake George, N.Y., on Friday, Feb.

As part of Northern Lights 2012, Ryan Harris, a member of Parks Canada's Underwater Archaeology Service, will speak on the Agency's archaeological surveys in Canada's Arctic.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS will descend on Penola again to look for the school Saint Mary of the Cross founded in the South Australian town.

The Hudson School, 601 Park Ave., will present a lecture on archaeology in New Jersey this Thursday evening as part of its ongoing lecture & film series for adults, "Think Thursdays." Brock Giordano will speak on some of the archaeological sites in New Jersey, and also, what regulations currently exist to protect them, according to a flyer to the ... (more)

The Costa Concordia cruise ship remains half-submerged three weeks after it crashed.

Greenland, the world's largest island, lies mostly north of the Arctic Circle. For nearly 5,000 years it has been occupied by the Inuit.

One of our bad habits is as old as the ancient Mayan civilization. Jennifer Loughmiller-Newman of the University at Albany and Dmitri Zagorevski of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute studied scrapings from more than 50 Mayan vessels and found evidence of a potent tobacco in one tiny, 1,300-year-old container.