It has been another big week in digital archaeology and history, folks. In this week's Digest, we explore the digitization of Biblical manuscripts, ancient timepieces, Byzantine shipwrecks and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists excavate at the Gulkana Site in the 1970s. Dr. William Workman Photo Collection The ancestors of Alaska Native ...

The field of Digital Archaeology is growing faster than most of us can even keep up with. In order to summarize some of the advances in the field, I am introducing a new Friday column that discusses ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a devastating volcanic eruption destroyed and entombed a thriving Roman city, researchers are turning to the novel technique of digital archaeology to reveal the “lost Pompeii ...

The ability to visually represent artefacts, whether inorganics like stone, ceramic and metal, or organics such as bone and plant material, has always been of great importance to the field of ...

On a perfect autumn day, students from University of Pennsylvania’s Introduction to Digital Archaeology class honed their digital field mapping skills at Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal (AME) ...

A group of researchers is recreating monuments damaged in Syria using digital models and 3-D printers. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Roger Michel, director of the Institute for Digital Archaeology. The ...

Digital archaeology increasingly harnesses computational techniques to advance our understanding of pottery from archaeological contexts. By integrating 3D scanning, photogrammetry, and advanced image ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass ...

"Open Heritage" features digitized, 3D models of over 25 locations from around the world, signaling the start of a major chapter for the field of digital archaeology. Working with the Syrian ...

Researchers investigating the well-known House of Thiasus in Pompeii became fascinated with an unconnected stone staircase. A digital architectural reconstruction (based on features still present at ...