The Northern Territory Environment Department says an archaeological dig on a vacant lot in the Darwin CBD has uncovered historically significant money and medicine. The department says among the discoveries they have found a chinese coin, an Australian penny, a pearl shell and metal that may have come off soldiers buckles during World War II. […]

Trans Cape, the much anticipated large-scale multimedia exhibition of African contemporary art, has been postponed. Originally scheduled to open on September 23 this year, it will now take place from March 24 to May 2, 2007. The decision to reschedule was prompted by delays in funding from key stake holders and an enormous interest from […]

Emory Kristof could not believe his eyes. Crammed into a nondescript house in suburban Los Angeles were 10,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain and pottery, some 2,000 years old, so densely packed that any movement threatened to send them crashing to the floor. Some were encrusted with coral, evidence of their hidden life for centuries under […]

A team from the European Underwater Archeology Institute is carrying out a study to determine the best way to build Egypt’s first underwater antiquities museum, an official source said. According to a press release from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), experts are studying the best way to build the museum, which will treasure underwater […]

Archaeologists have found a carved sandstone fragment believed to be part of a medieval church in Ross-shire. Highland Archaeological Services said the piece provided a link between an 8th Century monastery and 17th Century church at Tarbat, Portmahomack. The remains were uncovered during Scottish Water’s £3m project to replace mains pipes in the area. The […]