Rare 5th century BC bone stylus found intact in Gela
Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable artifact that sheds new light on ancient Greek craft and ritual practices.
Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
Experts have helped uncover evidence of a Roman industrial hub on the banks of the River Wear, at Offerton, near Sunderland.
Mapping settlement desertion in Southeastern Europe
The volume comprises studies that investigate the phenomenon of settlement desertion in Southeastern Europe from Antiquity to the Modern Era.
Whale hunting in South America began 5,000 years ago
Indigenous communities in southern Brazil were hunting large cetaceans around a thousand years before the earliest documented evidence.
Training the Next Generation of Digital Classicists
The Classics and Ancient History Department at Durham University is offering a training workshop for emerging scholars in Digital Classics.
Remains of a Byzantine-era monastic complex uncovered in Sohag
The discovery was made during ongoing excavations at the site, revealing the remains of mud-brick buildings.
Deposition in Water: A Practice and its Problems
The session proposes to deepen our understanding of why and how water was seen as a suitable element for deposition in ancient Greece.
World’s oldest arrow poison
Researchers have identified traces of plant poison from the South African plant gifbol on Stone Age arrowheads.
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Anthropologists Offer New Evidence of Bipedalism
Analysis centers on point of attachment of ligament vital to walking upright.
Toxic pigment found in 2,000-year-old women’s graves
Archaeologists have discovered lumps of intensely red cinnabar in the graves of women buried 2,000 years ago at the Chervony Mayak cemetery.
African lineage near the root of Homo sapiens
773,000-year-old fossils from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco illuminate the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans.
CCC 2026: Children of a Lesser God?
This panel will continue work initiated at the Classical Association Annual Meeting in 2025 (University of St. Andrews).
CCC 2026: Cooperate, contain, confront
Submissions are invited to this panel on Roman foreign relations at the upcoming Celtic Conference in Classics.
Cyprus: Life at the Furnace-project
This season’s work focused partly on the small, cultivated plateau immediately north of the village of Agia Marina Xyliatou.
Roots of medieval migration into England uncovered
Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places and at different rates, a study finds.
Africa’s oldest cremation pyre and complex ritual practices
A new study reports the earliest evidence of cremation in Africa, and the world’s oldest known in situ cremation pyre for an adult.
Roman Names on Crete
The book uses the evidence of Roman names to document and analyze a wide range of Cretan responses to the Romans and the Roman empire.
Rethinking Classical Mythology
International Conference at The Norwegian Institute in Rome (Viale Trenta Aprile 33) on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 March 2026.
CRASIS Annual Masterclass 2026
CRASIS invites applications for its fifteenth Annual Meeting and Masterclass, which will take place on 5 and 6 March 2026.
The Spartan Politeia
The Call for Papers for the panel “The Spartan Politeia”, to be held at the 17th Celtic Conference in Classics, Maynooth, 14–17 July 2026.
New discoveries in the Slave Quarters of the Villa of Civita Giuliana
Amphorae with broad beans were found in one of the rooms on the first floor of the slave quarters of the large villa.
Archaeologists use AI to create prehistoric video game
Archaeologists have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age.
Thousands of dinosaur tracks discovered in Stelvio National Park
Herds of large herbivores formed thousands of dinosaur tracks about 210 million years ago, during the Late Triassic.
Roman urbanism was bad for Brits’ health
Analysis of skeletal remains confirms theories that the population’s health declined during this period, but only in the urban centres.