"Anything that falls into the water [of the canals] is likely to be used for the nests," explained Auke-Florian Hiemstra, a biologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands.

The Heraklion Archaeological Museum is a must-see in Crete — and all of Greece, even — for its extensive collection of Minoan art. Highlights include a mini-statue of a Snake Goddess and the ...

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The Lingjiatan Site Museum, a new archaeological museum on origins of Chinese civilization, will open on May 16 in Anhui province. The Lingjiatan site in ...

Against this backdrop, the Bardo National Museum is hosting two study days on April 23-24, entitled "60 years of Tunisian-Italian archaeological cooperation: assessment and prospects," marking the ...

According to its website, the Archaeological Museum of Mykonos is closed until further notice, but recent travelers attest that it is open. Admission costs 4 euros (about $4.50) for adults.

It was discovered during excavation work for a drainage project at the Francisco Fort Museum a few years ago. Carbon dating of charcoal found during the dig shows the hearth was in use around 1721 ...

(For now, Tutankhamen’s gold funeral mask, among the most iconic archaeological artifacts in the world, is still on display at the old Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.) Also ...

the Department of Archaeology and National Museum reports. The water palace described in the palm-leaf manuscript—supposedly penned by Minister Letwe Nawrahta (a prominent minister during the ...

Today this place is known as Montlleó: an open-air Magdalenian archaeological site located high in the Catalan Pyrenees. At around 1,144 metres above sea level, in the Coll de Saig, it is one of the ...