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Queerness beyond identity

Queerness beyond identity

This panel invites methodological interventions, especially in conversation with queer and trans studies, to the treatment of content claimed or marginalized by Classics.
Revealing the menu of 5000 years ago

Revealing the menu of 5000 years ago

Up to now, a mystery has remained regarding the preferred plant food ingredients of the so-called Funnel Beaker Culture.
Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World – SA4AW

Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World – SA4AW

This conference explores the contribution of semantic annotation, hybrid AI, deep learning, and knowledge graphs to ancient world studies.
Putting Objects with Gods/Putting Gods with Objects

Putting Objects with Gods/Putting Gods with Objects

This panel of the 2025 Celtic Conference explores the multifaceted nature of divine attributes in ancient Mediterranean religions.
Markos Kampanis. Odyssey

Markos Kampanis. Odyssey

The exhibition is a painterly journey, shorter than the Homeric one, based on a parallel imaginary geography conceived by the artist.  
Magnificent Scandinavian helmet found in Lejre

Magnificent Scandinavian helmet found in Lejre

The exceptional gold-plated bronze helmet fragment was uncovered by two metal detectorists near Lejre (Denmark) during the spring of 2024.
Lavish bath complex came to light in Pompeii

Lavish bath complex came to light in Pompeii

One of the largest private bath complexes ever to be discovered, adjoining a banqueting room, has been brought to light during the excavations of Regio IX in Pompeii.
Funded MA and PhD Opportunities at Central European University

Funded MA and PhD Opportunities at Central European University

The Department of Historical Studies at Central European University announces its call for applications for the 2025/2026 academic year.
Stolen Fragments

Stolen Fragments

Mazza's investigation asks what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. 
Ptolemaic Statue Head Found in Taposiris Magna’s 7th c. City

Ptolemaic Statue Head Found in Taposiris Magna’s 7th c. City

The marble head was found in the ruins of a house which was built about 700 years later, during the Byzantine-Islamic transitional period.
EAA 2025 session on Ancient Egyptian Settlements

EAA 2025 session on Ancient Egyptian Settlements

Contributions can now be submitted to session #208 "Bridging the Gaps: Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Egyptian Settlements".
Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women

Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women

A new study by Bournemouth University has found evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain.
Discoveries relating to industrial-scale Roman pottery production

Discoveries relating to industrial-scale Roman pottery production

Archaeological discoveries from a Roman pottery production site which formed part of a major industry around Poole Harbour.
East Asia meets Europe in Lower Austria

East Asia meets Europe in Lower Austria

Ancient genomes show integration of genetically different groups to the same early medieval Avar society in the Vienna Basin, Austria.
Volcanic eruption caused Neolithic sacrifice of unique “sun stones”

Volcanic eruption caused Neolithic sacrifice of unique “sun stones”

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs.
The hidden complexity of ancient Peruvian tattoos

The hidden complexity of ancient Peruvian tattoos

This discovery suggests that tattoos could have been status symbols or spiritual emblems in ancient societies.
World’s oldest 3D map discovered

World’s oldest 3D map discovered

Palaeolithic people had “worked” the sandstone in a way that mirrored the female form and opened fractures for infiltrating water.
A new chapter to Indonesia’s layered human history

A new chapter to Indonesia’s layered human history

First genomic evidence of early migration from New Guinea into into the Wallacea, e.g. Timor-Leste and hundreds of Indonesian islands.
Cultural Heritage and Legacies of Colonialism

Cultural Heritage and Legacies of Colonialism

New podcast season on Cultural Heritage and Legacies of Colonialism, edited by Christine Johnston
Ancient artifacts in Iraq shed light on hidden history of Mesopotamia

Ancient artifacts in Iraq shed light on hidden history of Mesopotamia

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni and a team of researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan.
New secrets under Sforza Castle in Milan

New secrets under Sforza Castle in Milan

Underground passages, some of which could be linked to secret passages of a military nature, also described in drawings by Leonardo da Vinci.
Waka found on Rēkohu Wharekauri Chatham Island

Waka found on Rēkohu Wharekauri Chatham Island

Αrchaeological authority was granted to Manatū Taonga to allow for the recovery of the visible pieces of the waka that remain in situ.
Drone mapping unlocks secrets of ‘mega fortress’ in the Caucasus

Drone mapping unlocks secrets of ‘mega fortress’ in the Caucasus

A Cranfield University academic has used drone mapping to investigate a 3000-year-old ‘mega fortress’ in the Caucasus mountains.
Cleopatra’s sister remains missing

Cleopatra’s sister remains missing

An interdisciplinary research team has analysed the skull that has long been thought to belong the remains of Cleopatra's sister.
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