When researchers at the University of Arkansas started looking through declassified satellite images of the Middle East, they had some idea what they were looking for. They had bought the images, ...

During the Cold War, the United States flew U2 spy planes over Europe, the Middle East, and central eastern Asia in search of potential military targets. These missions inadvertently gathered ...

During the 1950s and 1960s, as United States' U-2 spy planes criss-crossed the globe taking thousands of pictures of military infrastructure, they were also digging into the archaeological record.

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The well-publicized destruction of archaeological sites and museum exhibits by ISIS has garnered worldwide condemnation. Sites like Nineveh, Hatra, and Mosul have been the subject of concerted efforts ...

Archaeologists have completed the first stage of a major five-year study of the archaeology of the Tintagel headland in Cornwall, in the southwest of England. In English folklore, the site is thought ...

FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS—The Corona Atlas of the Middle East team at the University of Arkansas has spotted 10,000 new archaeological sites using declassified spy-satellite imagery of the Fertile ...

ALBANY — A team of archaeologists from Hartgen Archeological Association, Inc. led Capital Region school children on an archaeological dig at the Thomas Elkin Residence on Monday morning during a five ...

Peter Morrill, cultural resources and curatorship manager at DNR and Julie Schablitsky, chief of cultural resources, MDOT stand in the shadow of a plank building next to Elkridge Furnace Inn, at Elk ...

In the 1950s and early '60s, with the Cold War at its peak, the United States flew U2 spy planes across Europe, the Middle East, and central eastern Asia, taking images of interesting military targets ...