Online Excavations

ARCHAEOLOGY's Interactive Digs
June 1999-present
Follow online as ancient civilizations are unearthed. Get full access to frequently updated field notes, Q&A with archaeologists, personal journals, and more!

Dunstanburgh Castle Dig
November 2003
An English Heritage investigation at Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland, England

Notes from the Field:
Wisconsin's Great Lakes Shipwrecks
Fall 2000-2003
Underwater archaeologists examine several historic shipwrecks and describe their work in daily postings of journal entries and photographs

Archaeology Live! York Archaeology
June 2001-August 2004
A research and training program follows the excavation of a Roman fortress in Britain.

expeditions@fieldmuseum
Oaxaca, Mexico
March-July 2003
Join the Field Museum in investigating the history of the Valley of Oaxaca and its pre-Colonial inhabitants. (Click here for 2002 expedition to Oaxaca.)

Preserving the USS Monitor
March-August 2001
A five-month effort by U.S. Navy divers to recover the Monitor's steam engine and a section of her hull.

Orkney Archaeological Trust
1998-2002
Online journals of excavations in Scotland's Orkney Islands

Odyssey in Egypt
This website, built for sixth graders to learn about archaeology in 1996, was one of the first "online excavations."

© 2005 by the Archaeological Institute of America www.archaeology.org/wwwarky/digs.html

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