A local real estate attorney recently bought an island in Lake Joyce that may have a connection to Blackbeard the pirate, and ...

"Archaeologists have long been interested in understanding the antiquity and evolution of human occupation of the world's islands, but relatively limited attention has been given to small islands.

A forgotten sliver of land in the far north of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait’s Failaka Island is home now mostly to camels. Its only town is a sprawling ruin pockmarked with bullet holes and debris from ...

An international team of maritime archaeologists race to save the remains of 18th century shipwrecks on the shores of a river island near the frontline of Russia's war on Ukraine.

Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, are some of the ...

Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) is known for two things: giant stone heads and the cautionary tale of an isolated civilization that destroyed itself through reckless misuse of environmental resources. But ...

Members of the Xwe’etay/Lasqueti Island Archaeology Project (XLAP), including SFU researchers Dana Lepofsky and Sean Markey, Coast Salish Nations, and Xwe-etay (Lasqueti) residents have been working ...

Mohammed bin Redha, Dr. Hassan Ashkanani, Dr. Stefan Larsen, and Dr. Ole Hirsland, Supervisor of the Danish Mission ...

Waves driven by rising seas could reach Ahu Tongariki -- the largest restored group of moai statues on Easter Island -- in less than 60 years, according to a new study. Photo by victoriaspics/Pixabay ...

SANTA CRUZ ISLAND, Calif. — Archaeologist Torben Rick watched with frustration as pounding surf clawed at one of North America’s oldest homesteads, a massive heap of village foundations, cutting tools ...

In 1772, merchant John Brown recruited men from a Providence tavern to silently row south on part of Narragansett Bay, board the British revenue schooner HMS Gaspee and set the custom's patrol boat on ...

The Spike Island Archaeological Project team have identified the full extent of the convict mass graves on the site of the concentration camp-style prison in Cork harbor. Let by University College ...