NOLA Archaeology

08/10/2026

Two statues in this article, one Archaic and the other Roman.

08/09/2026

Roman shipwreck off the coast of Sicily

An ancient Roman shipwreck, with hundreds of amphorae, has been discovered around three miles off the coast of Mazara del Vallo, in Sicily, Italy’s heritage police said.

08/04/2026

Related to local things, the Roman tombstone found in New Orleans last year is back in Civitavecchia and will go on display soon.

An ancient Roman tablet found in a New Orleans backyard by one Tulane professor and identified by another will soon go on permanent display at a museum in Civitavecchia, Italy, more than 80 years after the artifact disappeared from the city.

08/04/2026

If you should find yourself in Toronto this fall, there is an exhibit on the Roman shoes from Vindolanda.

2,000 year old Roman footwear. On view for the first time in North America.

07/27/2026

After a WWII pilot crashed in Italy, New Orleans college students are trying to bring him home https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/wwii-italy-archaeology/article_e683e5e1-e605-44f3-a6c5-7fd49603040d.html?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

“I’ve become best friends with a pickaxe and a shovel."

07/26/2026

Beautiful!

By collecting about 1,000 fragments and painstakingly assembling the pieces, archaeologists restored a scene depicting the popular love story of Dionysus and Ariadne.

06/11/2026

Hope you are having a good summer. Check in with us in early September for the new lecture schedule.

04/15/2026

April 22, at 7:00 PM Central: AIA Archaeology Hour, last for this year. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1917762574434/WN_P3mM9xzrTOuqu-Q4JWHJxw #/registration

Join the AIA as Justin Dunnavant (UCLA) presents the final AIA Archaeology Hour talk of the 2025-2026 season: "Ecology and Slavery in St. Croix."

This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific.

The development of plantation slavery radically transformed societies and environments in the Americas. In this talk, Dunnavant will delve into the colonial practice of coral mining and its environmental impacts in the Danish West Indies. Drawing from archaeological, historical, and environmental data, Dunnavant reveals how the use of coral as the dominant construction material for colonial buildings left a lasting legacy on the landscape and seascape that is still evident today on the island of St. Croix.

Join the AIA as Justin Dunnavant (UCLA) presents the final AIA Archaeology Hour talk of the 2025-2026 season: "Ecology and Slavery in St. Croix." This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. The development of plantation slavery radically transformed societies...

12/19/2025

Pompeii is quite special in this respect.

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the Roman Empire

12/17/2025

2025 most impactful archaeological discoveries

A closer look at the top archaeological finds of 2025 that are likely to have an impact on our understanding of human history for years to come.