Archaeologists Unearth Lost Military Camp
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Arrowheads that turn up in the mud after a heavy rain are common here, but now archaeologists are digging up broken bits of fine china, parts of military uniforms and even charred firewood, relics of one of the biggest Army camps in the earliest days of the republic that went unnoticed for two centuries.
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The mystery baffled archaeologists for more than two decades. What happened to 22,000 pieces of gold &#151; jewel-encrusted crowns, daggers and baubles from an ancient burial mound &#151; that had apparently vanished from Afghanistan in the 1980s?
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Archaeologists say they have found a huge ancient settlement used by the people who built Stonehenge.
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Nearly 350 tons of explosives are missing from a former military complex in Iraq, the UN nuclear watchdog says.
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Lebanese forces search for remnants of a militant group a day after it was routed from a Palestinian refugee camp.
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Nearly 380 tonnes of deadly explosives, powerful enough to shatter air planes, demolish buildings, make missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons, are missing from one of Iraq&#39;s most sensitive former military installations, the interim government has
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More than 22,000 ancient cultural treasures from Afghanistan, feared lost or destroyed after decades of war and Taliban rule, have been taken out of dusty crates and safes in Kabul and inventoried for safekeeping, said a U.S. archeologist on Wednesday.
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Explosives experts found the bodies of two missing American soldiers tied together with a bomb between one victim&#039;s legs after searchers were led to the remains by physical evidence and tips from Iraqis, the military said Tuesday.
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US forces have exhumed a mass grave site in northwestern Iraq and uncovered the remains of scores of people. Many of the bodies found at the site near al-Hatra are believed to be the
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Archaeologists unearth what is believed to be the first discovery of a Viking burial site in the UK.
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KENYAN and British investigators have exhumed the remains of a woman as part of a probe into allegations that British soldiers had raped hundreds of Kenyan women in a region used as a military training ground for three decades.
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LIMA, Peru  - Archeologists have uncovered a 600-year-old, large underground cemetery belonging to a Peruvian warrior culture, thought to be the first discovery of its kind, an official said on Thursday.
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Archaeologists have discovered a cache of artifacts near South Padre Island that they say could be up to 5,000 years old, potentially providing new clues about early peoples of the Texas coast.
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Archaeologists have recovered more than 1,000 artifacts at sites being prepared for the 2008 Olympics, but elsewhere in China, they are often in a losing race against bulldozers.
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"It would have been the final tombstone for this temple"  Italian police have recovered an ancient Greek temple dug up in southern Italy by a construction crew who had dumped or looted the prized artifacts and begun to pour cement over the ruins, authorities said Tuesday.After receiving information about the discovery during construction work on a tourist resort on the coast of southern Calabria, police used helicopters to locate the site near the town of Crotone, said art squad officials from the Carabinieri paramilitary police.More than 50 artifacts, including columns and mosaics, had been excavated from the site and used to decorate another hotel complex nearby, while other pieces had been placed in a dump to be reused as construction material. Read more
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Worried about recent artillery attacks on American mess halls in Iraq, the U.S. military was just days away from completing a reinforced dining area at the camp where a rocket attack killed more than 20 people in a tent the bunker was meant to replace.
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LANCOVO, Slovenia  - After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two.