Archaeology

Quality:

Archaeology - study of the past via material culture. Article “Archaeology” in Simple English Wikipedia has 46.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2005^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1360^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5028^th most popular in all topics.

The 1717^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1020^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1414^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4649^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Archaeology” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1414^th place) and written by 30 authors in all languages (4649^th place).

Since the creation of article “Archaeology”, its content was written by 69 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1360^th place) and edited by 5300 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1717^th place).

The article is cited 578 times in Simple English Wikipedia (3093^rd place) and cited 109845 times in all languages (1214^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4 in December 2003
• Global: #18 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #231 in December 2008
• Global: #1971 in September 2014

There are 55 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Archaeology		91.9716
2	Finnish (fi) Arkeologia		86.7587
3	Chinese (zh) 考古学		81.2293
4	Turkish (tr) Arkeoloji		77.7562
5	Vietnamese (vi) Khảo cổ học		72.2425
6	Spanish (es) Arqueología		71.9382
7	Catalan (ca) Arqueologia		67.3561
8	Bulgarian (bg) Археология		66.0446
9	German (de) Archäologie		65.8951
10	Greek (el) Αρχαιολογία		60.4303

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Archaeology		12 359 024
2	Spanish (es) Arqueología		7 797 603
3	Portuguese (pt) Arqueologia		1 896 533
4	French (fr) Archéologie		1 732 692
5	Russian (ru) Археология		1 642 843
6	German (de) Archäologie		1 548 550
7	Arabic (ar) علم الآثار		1 444 290
8	Turkish (tr) Arkeoloji		1 113 053
9	Polish (pl) Archeologia		1 020 621
10	Japanese (ja) 考古学		1 019 552

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Archaeology		31 081
2	Spanish (es) Arqueología		4 401
3	Russian (ru) Археология		3 594
4	French (fr) Archéologie		3 343
5	Simple English (simple) Archaeology		2 927
6	German (de) Archäologie		2 814
7	Japanese (ja) 考古学		2 047
8	Chinese (zh) 考古学		1 816
9	Italian (it) Archeologia		1 694
10	Portuguese (pt) Arqueologia		1 632

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Archaeology		1 158
2	German (de) Archäologie		405
3	French (fr) Archéologie		338
4	Spanish (es) Arqueología		293
5	Italian (it) Archeologia		226
6	Russian (ru) Археология		197
7	Dutch (nl) Archeologie		192
8	Portuguese (pt) Arqueologia		168
9	Polish (pl) Archeologia		145
10	Hebrew (he) ארכאולוגיה		144

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Archaeology		5
2	French (fr) Archéologie		5
3	German (de) Archäologie		2
4	Spanish (es) Arqueología		2
5	Russian (ru) Археология		2
6	Simple English (simple) Archaeology		2
7	Urdu (ur) آثاریات		2
8	Azerbaijani (az) Arxeologiya		1
9	Greek (el) Αρχαιολογία		1
10	Estonian (et) Arheoloogia		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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