The Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has a nice collection of online exhibits, including ones on Roman glassmaking, the ancient history of wine, and a history of body modification. (Other exhibits have appeared on Mefi previously.)
posted on Jan 13, 2008 - View this thread

Chocolate and the Beer of the Ancients. New archaeological evidence suggests that primitive beer brewers were the first to discover the goodness of chocolate.
posted on Nov 20, 2007 - View this thread

Lost Cities.
posted on Feb 26, 2007 - View this thread

Samarra is in the news. The modern city is small, but built on the colossal ruins of the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Google Earth reveals amazing details of the ancient city, one of the largest archaeological sites in the world.
posted on Feb 24, 2006 - View this thread

What is the Plain of Jars, what does it look like, and where is it?
posted on Jun 12, 2004 - View this thread

Protecting the Cradle Kirkuk Air Base -- US Army Colonel works with Iraqi archaeological officials to protect nearby ancient sites.

Meanwhile at more secluded mounds, looters continue to plunder the sites and to erase the tangible record of the world's earliest civilizations. "When you come here at night, it looks like a city, there are so many lights," [Archaeological official Abdul-Amir] Hamdani said, looking out over the arid scrubland where thieves swarm after dark.
posted on May 25, 2004 - View this thread

Archaeologists are denouncing plans for a tunnel under Stonehenge. It's not the idea of the tunnel itself that is drawing fire, so much as the execution. The govt seems to be doing it on the cheap, in a way that won't solve the problem of the modern world intruding on the prehistoric megalith.
posted on Mar 21, 2004 - View this thread

Roman Cosmetics Found at Temple Dig: Stunningly well preservered, the cream still bears the fingerprints of whoever used it last, almost 2,000 years ago.
posted on Jul 30, 2003 - View this thread

Ancient Werewolves - 'These composite beings ... are a common theme from the beginning of painting.' (link via Weblogging Considered Harmful)
posted on Nov 29, 2001 - View this thread

Those French have been at it for a very long time.
posted on Jul 5, 2001 - View this thread

New Ancient Civilization found compareable to the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia civilizations. By Crom!
posted on May 6, 2001 - View this thread