archaeologist

For 40 years, the archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad had been the principal custodian of Palmyra.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Sudan is hardly the first war-ravaged Middle Eastern nation to have its heritage stolen and sold, said Amr Al-Azm, a Syrian archaeologist and co-director of the Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research Project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

In his new book, First Dogs: Hunter-Gatherers and their Canine Companions from Prehistory to the Present, archaeologist Professor Peter Mitchell explores dog domestication as a complicated and gradual process.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Of course, we’re familiar with the history and the events,” said Matthew DeFelice, another forensic underwater archaeologist with the POW agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

An archaeologist working 100,000 years from now could piece together a reasonable picture of Muslim belief and practice from the myriad objects he unearthed in a ruined mosque.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Nearby, teams of archaeologists worked in tents, assembling skeletons out of the discovered bones and piecing together skulls that were destroyed by blunt-force trauma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Katy McMonagle, one of the archaeologists who dug the whale head out, said the fossil was difficult to move and very heavy.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The workplace at the center of “Dig” is an excavation site in Greece, where Poehler’s Elise is among a team of archaeologists that unearths a rare artifact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

For years, archaeologists have debated why some ancient Egyptian princesses were buried with weapons.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

In Ofnet Cave in Bavaria, archaeologists discovered the remains of thirty-eight foragers, mainly women and children, who had been thrown into two burial pits.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari