Actor Harrison Ford has been elected to the board of ARCHAEOLOGY’s parent organization, the Archaeological Institute of America. Tree-ring data indicates that an El Nino was occurring in 1520, and may have eased Ferdinand Magellan’s trip across the Pacific Ocean, according to a new study summarized in Science. A water main made of a log […]

Roxanna Brown, director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University, died of an apparent heart attack in a Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, Washington, early this morning. Brown had been arrested in Seattle as part of a Los Angeles-based federal investigation into the trafficking of Southeast Asian antiquities. A burial mound in East […]