Woolly rhino genome recovered from Ice Age wolf stomach
The 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros was recovered from a tissue sample found preserved inside the stomach of an ancient wolf.
How climate change contributed to the demise of the Tang dynasty
How hydrological extremes such as droughts and floods between 800 and 907 CE in particular affected society and politics in China.
Tassi PhD Studentship in Ancient Greek History
Reminder of the closing date for the Tassi PhD Scholarship (2026), established by a generous private donation.
Archaeology and history of Byzantine Greece
Applications are now open for the Byzantine Archaeology, History and History of Art Course at the British School at Athens
MA in Classics and Ancient History
The Department of CAHAE at the University of Manchester invites applications for the MA in Classics and Ancient History.
Significant pithos burial uncovered in Rafina
During rescue excavations by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Eastern Attica an exceptionally significant pithos burial was uncovered.
Skills School: Beyond Beginners GIS, Beyond the Desktop
One week Skills School on creating Quantum GIS Online Maps and ArcGIS Story Maps to disseminate your research with Hannah Pethen.
Audio Visual Methods in Collaborative Archaeology
The Spring School is addressed to students in archaeology and heritage studies, BA (last year), Master, Research Masters, & PhD.
PHOTOS & VIDEO
Hygienic conditions in Pompeii’s early baths were poor
Limescale deposits in wells, pipes, and bathing facilities provide information about Pompeii's ancient water supply.
The Aegean Meets Europe
This article presents an analysis of two sheet gold ornaments of the Mycenaean post-palatial period found on the island of Kefalonia.
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.
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.