The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...

The Chinchorro began mummifying their dead well before the Egyptians immortalized the practice. However, the Chinchorro ...

Tara delights in Costa Rica, with its multigenerational community of divers looking for two Danish shipwrecks, the Fredericus Quartus and the Christianus Quintus. She witnesses how a community can ...

Currently, only a small part of the archaeology in this country is done through independent research at universities. In fact, almost eighty percent of professional archaeologists work outside ...

Process under way to recatalogue artefacts held in huge archaeology storehouse - Archaeologists are repackaging thousands of ...

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It's not what "Indiana Jones" would lead you to believe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeology is fundamentally the study ...

Three ironclad warships, C.S.S. Georgia, U.S.S. Cairo, and U.S.S. Monitor, are discussed as examples of industrial process in the United States Civil War period. In their archaeological study the ...

The Ancient Egyptians were mummifying people of high standing - after death it should be said - as far back as 4,000 years ago. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have found the oldest ...