New photographs reveal what lies beneath the surface of Easter Island, one of the most remote places in the world -- the carved bodies of the island's 887 famous guardians. Most people think of the 63 ...

Just in time for Easter, a family of rabbits—you heard that right—has assisted in a major archaeological discovery on Skokholm Island in Wales. The Welsh bunnies served as unlikely excavators, ...

A forgotten sliver of land in the far north of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait’s Failaka Island is home now mostly to camels. Its only town is a sprawling ruin pockmarked with bullet holes and debris from ...

Long-term demographic evolution in the Pacific islands : issues debates, and challenges / Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu -- Pre- and post-contact population in island Polynesia : can ...

A five-year archaeology study at Smuttynose and the surrounding islands of the Isles of Shoals is enlightening students, preservationists and history buffs about the shoals coastal environment of the ...

Sept. 5 (UPI) --Rising sea levels could flood more than 50 archaeological sites on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, by 2080 -- including the iconic Ahu Tongariki, according to a new study from the ...

Researchers found evidence of an Alutiiq village on Shuyak Island Patrick Saltonstall/Courtesy of the Alutiiq Museum Archaeologists with the Alutiiq Museum in Alaska discovered artifacts dating back 7 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A University of North Florida archaeology team is confident they have located the lost Indigenous northeast Florida community of Sarabay, a settlement mentioned in both French and ...

The Spike Island Archaeological Project team have identified the full extent of the convict mass graves on the site of the concentration camp-style prison in Cork harbor. Let by University College ...

SANTA CRUZ ISLAND, Calif. — Archaeologist Torben Rick watched with frustration as pounding surf clawed at one of North America’s oldest homesteads, a massive heap of village foundations, cutting tools ...