Bigfoot body thawing results are in: “they discovered it was a rubber suit.” That about sums it up.

Archaeologists working in advance of construction at Petriplatz square in central Berlin have found a medieval graveyard with remains of some 2,000 people, many of them children.

An archaeology student excavating the German trenches near St. Yves, Belgium, discovered the body of an Australian soldier who died in June 1917 during the Battle of Messines.

Fire might have swept through a Bronze Age village 900 years. At least that’s interpretation of archaeologists investigating the site at Isle of Man Airport where a runway’s to be extended.

Aboriginal artifacts and remains of extinct giant wombats and other megafauna may be at risk—along with artichokes—if the Hume Council plans to create a garbage dump move forward.

Here’s an interview with Frank Rupp. For 24 years, he has worked as a Bureau of Land Management archaeologist and for the past two decades he’s been based at the BLM’s Kremmling Field Office in Colorado.

A centuries-old Native American canoe, found in early July by three boys swimming in the Keowee River of South Carolina, has been moved to the Oconee Heritage Center for preservation and exhibition.

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