The Lone Star State is home to a rich heritage of archaeology and history, from 14,000-year-old stone tools to the famed Alamo. Explore this interactive map—then plan your own exploration.
There are mountains plunging into the sea from hundreds of meters, there are fjords, tall mountain peaks, northern lights and midnight sun. There are uniquely Norwegian Stave Churches, UNESCO ...
When a settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, at the northern tip of Newfoundland, was first excavated in the 1960s, the style of its buildings made clear they were constructed by Vikings who had ...
Neolithic Britons not only traveled hundreds of miles to attend celebrations at sacred sites, they also brought their own pigs with them to be consumed in the festivities. The food that an animal ...
The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...
7 Deer day sign (left), drawing of 7 Deer day sign (right)(Image by Heather Hurst and illustration by David Stuart, drawing by David Stuart) An inch-wide image of a deer’s head discovered at the ...
For three years after his 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, archaeologist Howard Carter did not think much about an undecorated wooden box that turned out to contain two small resin ...
The Espíritu Santo had three astrolabes aboard. But the navigation instruments didn't help one stormy night in 1554 when the Spanish vessel and two sister ships wrecked off the Texas coast.
We wish to invite you to visit Honduras, a Central American country in the very heart of the Americas. Honduras has a monumental archeological site in the western part of the country, Copán.
When a team of researchers led by Clément Nicolas, an archaeologist at Bournemouth University, first saw archival photographs of a broken schist slab held at France’s National Archaeology ...