Archaeology

Articles about ancient cultures, excavations and material remains.

Articles in this category: 208 Updated: April 29, 2026 Page 2 / 5

Clovis culture

Clovis culture — Early Paleoindian tradition in North America

Clovis point

Clovis point (Paleoindian fluted stone spear point)

Coin collecting

Coin collecting: an introduction to numismatics, history, and practice

Coligny calendar

Coobool Creek

Coobool Creek: Pleistocene human remains site in south‑western New South Wales

Copán

Copán — Ancient Maya City of Sculptors and Inscriptions

Cretan hieroglyphs

Cro-Magnon

Cro-Magnon: early European modern humans of the Upper Paleolithic

Culture of ancient Rome

Dead Sea scrolls

Dead Sea scrolls

Collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts discovered near the Dead Sea (1947–1979). Includes biblical texts and sectarian writings that illuminate late Second Temple Judaism and the

Dinosaurland Fossil Museum

Dinosaurland Fossil Museum — Lyme Regis fossil and dinosaur displays

Eartham Pit, Boxgrove

Eartham Pit, Boxgrove — Palaeolithic site in West Sussex

Edzná

Edzná: Ancient Maya City and Archaeological Site in Campeche

Egyptian Museum

Egyptian Museum (Museum of Egyptian Antiquities), Cairo

Egyptian Museum of Berlin

Egyptian Museum of Berlin (Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung)

Egyptology

Egyptology: Study of Ancient Egypt's Language, Art, and Material Culture

El Quartelejo Ruins

El Quartelejo Ruins (El Cuartelejo): the northernmost known pueblo in Kansas

Elder Futhark

Elder Futhark: the earliest runic alphabet of Germanic peoples

Eodromaeus

Eodromaeus — an early basal theropod from the Triassic

Epigraphy

Epigraphy — the study and interpretation of inscriptions

Epipalaeolithic

Eretz Israel Museum

Eretz Israel Museum

Eretz Israel Museum — Museum of the Land of Israel (Tel Aviv)

A descriptive overview of the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, its collections, outdoor archaeological park, pavilions, educational role and significance for the study of pre-1948

Etruscan

Etruscans (ancient Italian civilization)

Etruscan language

Etruscan language: overview, script, history and legacy

Exhumation

Exhumation: removal and reopening of human remains

Fibula (brooch)

Fukuiraptor

Fukuiraptor: Cretaceous theropod from Fukui, Japan

Gabarnmung

Nawarla Gabarnmung (Gabarnmung) — Aboriginal rock‑art and archaeological site

Hallstatt culture

Hand axe

Happisburgh archaeology

Harappa

Harappa — major Indus Valley archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan

Henge

Henge: prehistoric circular earthworks of the British Isles

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph: definition, history, and cultural significance

Hoxne treasure

Hoxne treasure: late Roman hoard from Suffolk, England

Ichnology

Icknield Street

Icknield Street (Ryknild Street): Roman road from Bourton to Templeborough

Ina Isings

Clasina "Ina" Isings — Dutch classical archaeologist and curator

Jacques de Morgan

K–Ar dating

Potassium–Argon (K–Ar) dating

Kalibangan

Kalibangan: Indus Valley Site on the Ghaggar-Hakra Plain

Khaled Asaad

Khaled Asaad — Syrian archaeologist and guardian of Palmyra's heritage

Kidron Valley necropolis

Kidron Valley necropolis (Silwan necropolis), rock-cut Jewish tombs in Jerusalem

Klaus Schmidt (archaeologist)

Klaus Schmidt (archaeologist) — director of Göbekli Tepe excavations

Knap of Howar

Knap of Howar: Neolithic stone houses on Papa Westray

Knossos

Knowth

Kot Diji