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Archaeology is the scientific study of the last remnants of humanitarian civilization, which means exploring the lives of ancient peoples by examining their waste, and discovering human activity in the past through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture and cultural landscapes. Incidentally, it should be mentioned that the area of ceramics is one of the most common in archaeology in terms of ancient fragments (Kampel & Sablatnig 2004). Hence, the reconstruction of unknown objects from a large number of smaller pieces may involve thousands of irregular fragments, and is a tedious task, especially in case of the loss some pieces. It sometimes requires laborious effort, and may take years of tedious work and may involve a great number of laborers and experienced archaeologists. The laborers and archaeologists involved must deal with the artifacts cautiously to avoid further damage, especially with the edges of fragments, when they attempt to assemble the fragments manually, because assemble the fragments are similar to assemble the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle (Castañeda et al. 2011; Funkhouser et al. 2011). Numerous archaeologists challenged the task of achieving the accurate reassembly of the archaeological fragments and returning them to their original form because of the high value in information that represents past civilizations and cultures. This paper will carry out a review to the studies that were performed using computers to retrieval archaeological excavation fragments into their original form. The main objective of the review of …