In western Alaska, archaeologists have excavated tools, grass baskets and rope, cuttings of human hair, and fur artifacts from the floors of homes that had been preserved in permafrost. The homes were part of a village that was occupied between 1350 and 1650 A.D. by the ancestors of the Yup’ik Eskimos. Scientists from Scotland’s University […]

In the ongoing search for the grave of Richard III, archaeologists have unearthed paving stones that may mark the spot of an early seventeenth-century garden. The garden belonged to Robert Herrick, a mayor of Leicester, who built a mansion and the garden on the site of the Grey Friars monastery. A visitor to his home […]