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Archaeology

Photo: Clergy using a phone

Religion

Should You Talk to God Using an App?

February 9, 2026

Photo: A white woman crouched down to dust of archaeological findings on the ground.

Archaeology

BU Student Archaeologists Headed to Peru and Hungary This Summer

September 6, 2024

Photo: Adriana Craciun, a CAS professor of English, outside Mine 3, a shuttered coal mine near Longyearbyen in Svalbard. A white woman bundled up in black winter gear stands and poses in front of an old coal railway in a snowy landscape. Snowy mountains can be seen in the distance.

Arctic Classes

Two New BU Classes to Offer a Wider, Deeper Look at the Arctic

December 1, 2023

Photo: An overhead shot of a few items on display at the Mary C. Beaudry Community Archaeology Center. An old glass medicine bottle is featured in the center of a black table.

Archaeology

Explore Cannonballs, Shipwrecks, and More at Boston’s Newly Renamed Mary C. Beaudry Community Archaeology Center

November 28, 2023

A WWII era plane flies through the sky with a vapor trail behind

WWII History

One BU Professor Helps Another Bury a War-Hero Relative, 75 Years Later

June 3, 2022

Portrait of professor Mary Beaudry, who died unexpectedly on October 20. She wears a orange colored scarf and purple sweater in her study.

Obituaries

BU Mourns the Loss of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy Professor Mary Beaudry

October 22, 2020

Photo: Student researcher Elizabeth Hannigan, a white woman with long red hair tied into a braid and wearing a black tee shirt and jeans, poses at an archaeological site.

Gender

Examining a Woman’s Role—1,300 Years Ago

July 5, 2018

University News

Office Artifacts: John Marston

January 24, 2018

Egyptologist Ava Forte Vitali speaking with a family with a mummy on the table

Arts & Culture

Archaeologists Reenact 19th-Century Mummy Ritual

October 31, 2016

Daniela Fernandez talks about different types of food of the Prehispanic Aztec period during "Eating Archaeology", a multidisciplinary event that unearthed ancient recipes.

Humanities

Cooking Up the Past

June 9, 2016

Joe Bagley, Boston City Archaeology, Three Cranes Tavern

Science & Technology

Secrets of the Three Cranes Tavern

November 9, 2014

Kaymakçı Citadel, Turkey, Christopher Roosevelt, Christina Luke, photogrammetry

Science & Technology

Picturing a Long-Gone Citadel

November 9, 2014

emily peschel, viking archaeology, viking teeth, forensic anthropology

Global

Vikings: Menacing Marauders or Homebodies?

November 9, 2014

william saturno, benjamin vining, archaeology research, peru, remote sensing

Research

Seeing beneath the Sugarcane

November 9, 2014

Michael Danti, iraq archaeology, boston university college of arts and sciences

Science & Technology

Digging in the Shadow of Death

November 9, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, Archaeology site dig, Turkey, blog

National Science Foundation

BU Archaeologists Explore Turkey, and Blog About It

July 17, 2014

Catherine West, professor of archaeology, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, CAS, climate change research, Chirikof Island, Kodiak Archipelago, climate change

Arts & Culture

What Ancient Dinners Tell Us about Climate Change

January 23, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS research assistant professor of archaeology Francisco Estrada-Belli, Mayan archaeological dig, Guatemala Ministry of Culture, Pacunam Foundation, the Alphawood Foundation, National Geographic Society Waitt Grants Program, Maya Archaeology Initiative, National Science Foundation funded study

Research

CAS Archaeologist Finds Near-Perfect Maya Mural

October 1, 2013

Boston University BU, Archaeologist Curtis Runnels, David Carballo, tool knapping tool making, archeology, College of Arts and Sciences CAS

Academics

Knapping Rocks

September 16, 2013

Wakefield Estate Summer Archaeology Institute summer program, Milton, Massachusetts

University News

Archaeologists Explore an 18th-Century Estate

September 4, 2013

Archaeologists Explore an 18th-Century Estate