The Confusing Hunt for Archaeological News Online

I realized recently that searching for news on Archaeology can be really difficult. For the average person browsing the web in search of news about new Archaeological discoveries, it is difficult to navigate the online webpages of newspapers and news agencies like the Associated Press. The easiest way to find news articles related to the topic is to include the name of a news source and Archaeology in the subject line for a search on Google. But when you try to navigate a website, it is almost impossible. It requires lots of time and deductive skills.

With news about more common subjects, like the world, or economy, it is usually a lot easier to find the articles related to the subject. With archaeology, you have to look through all the tabs at the top or side of the page to try and find the section where archaeology is reported. It is a confusing and sometimes not logical process. 

With a newspaper like The New York Times, archaeology is covered in the science section under "Archaeology and Anthropology. And even then, a lot of the news is from earlier in the year. The most recent article on the first page is from September 11th, 2012. New discoveries and articles have come out since then. But an avid New York Times reader would not know because their webpage for archaeological news is not up to date.

With The Boston Globe, archaeology is found by clicking News-->More in News-->Nation. 

With the Associated Press, you can spend a lot of time on the homepage searching for stories. But the easiest way is to go to the search browser on Associated Press and type in "archaeology" or something related. Otherwise, you will waste lots of time scrolling through stories completely unrelated to what you are looking for.

I do not know why these websites are so confusing when it comes to archaeology. I would have struggled to find news about archaeology if I had not used Google to search for the subject and then go from there to find the news sources. Exploring each news sources' webpage is too confusing and complicated since the search for archaeological news on each one varies a lot. If there was a way to inform news sources about their webpages, I would highly encourage them to make their news more accessible to the average viewer.