Archaeologists are everywhere, even in Antarctica. Estelle Lazer is with a team who are assessing Mawson's huts to ascertain what needs to be done to preserve them. Since the huts were built in ...

For someplace so cold, Antarctica sure is a hotbed of scientific endeavors, from geology and meteorology to astronomy and archaeology. Wait, archaeology? That’s right. Even in one of the most desolate ...

A story perpetuated in some social media circles and fringe websites claims that 600 million-year-old fossils belonging to tiny humanoids have been found in Antarctica. This is an internet hoax ...

But archaeology isn't just limited to dirt, rocks, and water. Plenty of major historical discoveries were also found trapped away in the ice. We may often think of ice as fragile, but given the ...

An ancient lost world hidden for more than 34 million years has been discovered below a mile of ice in Antarctica. Using satellite data and ice-penetrating radar, scientists revealed rivers once ran ...

Archaeology in Antarctica is a serious topic, but most of it is focused on the legacy of 19 th and 20 th century explorers, and those who followed the whales for less benign purposes.

Antarctica is warming at a rate so rapid that the frozen region’s green vegetation has grown tenfold in the past four decades, according to a concerning new report in the journal “Nature ...

Hidden beneath the vast ice sheet that characterizes Antarctica, the Transantarctic Mountains rise as one of the longest and oldest mountain ranges on the planet.This range, extending over 3,500 ...

The southern polar regions are a forbidding place. Antarctica’s harsh climate and thick ice coverage have made archaeological explorations — or explorations of any kind — exceptionally challenging.

Archaeology American submarine, lost for over a century, discovered 'remarkably intact' off the coast of San Diego Antarctica World's largest iceberg, A23a, is disintegrating into thousands of ...

The study also considered Antarctica’s vulnerability to a range of extreme events to understand the causes and likely future changes. One of these includes the world’s largest recorded ...