Archaeologists

A golden tongue would not have been uncommon at elite burials during the Ptolemaic and Roman times, said Lorelei H. Corcoran, director of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archeology at the University of Memphis."In an Egyptian burial…

Archaeologists have discovered the site in southeastern Alaska where an indigenous tribe built a wooden fortress more than two centuries ago to withstand Russian invaders.The fort was built in the early 19th century by the Tlingit in Sitka…

In a hidden valley on an Indonesian island is a cave adorned with perhaps the oldest figurative art ever seen by modern eyes.The vivid depiction of a wild boar, outlined and filled with mulberry pigment, goes back at least 45,500 years,…