Decision on the antiquities being removed from the Venizelos station
The construction of the Venizelos Station has been approved with the method of temporarily removing and then reinstalling the antiquities.
Birch bark tar was used in medieval England
Archaeologists have, for the first time, identified the use of birch bark tar in medieval England – the use of which was previously thought to be limited to prehistory.
Scientists uncover world’s oldest forest
Scientists have discovered remnants of the world's oldest fossil forest in a sandstone quarry in Cairo, New York.
Yannis Tsarouchis “Cast Shadows”
The exhibition presents Yannis Tsarouchis’ studies on light and especially on cast shadows which he started to get involved with since the 1950s.
Ancient Roman culinary preferences revealed in Ashkelon
Archaeological excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority near Ashkelon uncovered an ancient industrial area with winepresses and rarely discovered installations for producing a popular fish sauce, the preparation of which involved strong odors. Vats used to produce fish sauce
Caribbean settlement began in Greater Antilles
Rigorous reexamination of radiocarbon dating of sites on 55 islands shoots down the idea that colonization moved step by step from south to north.
Ancient Mediterranean seawall first known defense against sea level rise
7,000-year-old seawall in Tel Hreiz, Israel reveals earliest known structure built against sea level rise and provides new insights into current battle with flooding threat.
Ancient ‘chewing gum’ yields insights into people and bacteria of the past
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a thousands-of-years old "chewing gum".
Chinese Art at the Byzantine & Christian Museum
The temporary exhibition “Chinese works of art from the I. and D. Passas Collection”, organized by the Byzantine and Christian Museum, is the first public presentation of objects from the Passas Foundation’s collection of Asian art.
Over 200,000 visitors annually to the Diktaion Antron
“Our land and the culture of our region are linked to the cave and we consider the need to support this monument as one of our top priorities,” said Mr Stefanakis, Mayor of Lasithi Plateau.
Archaeologists discovered princely tombs near ‘Griffin Warrior’
University of Cincinnati archaeologists unearthed two large tombs at the site of ancient Pylos where the famous Griffin Warrior was found in 2015.
Ancient events are still impacting mammals worldwide
Researchers spent more than five years compiling and analyzing data about the diets, body sizes and variety of species in 515 mammal communities.
Speech could be older than thought
New research suggests that speech emerged much earlier than thought, as far back as at least 20 million years.
Nine possible Bronze Age figurines unearthed in Orkney?
A team from ORCA Archaeology has discovered an amazing series of half-metre tall stone-carved objects while completing exploratory archaeological excavations.
Excavating in Nea Paphos in 2019
Dr Craig Barker, Director of the Paphos Theatre Archaeological Project, reports on their recent 2019 Season.
‘Two collections meet’ at the Museum of Byzantine Culture
The exhibition presents 129 cultural goods, portable icons, objects of private worship, liturgical items, vestments, holy relics dated from the 14th until the beginning of the 20th century.
Small sphinx statue unearthed in Minya’s Tuna El-Gebel
The Egyptian Archaeological Mission, under Sayed Abdel-Malek, in Egypt’s central Minya governorate has uncovered a small statue of a royal sphinx.
The mystery of Easter Island revealed?
The nearly 1,000 Moai were carved because the community believed the statues capable of producing agricultural fertility and thereby critical food supplies.
Human teeth used as jewellery in Turkey 8,500 years ago
The rarity of the find suggests that the human teeth were imbued with profound symbolic meaning for the people who wore them.
Lina Mendoni at the COP25 conference in Madrid
She referred to interdisciplinary research that contributes to better knowledge and improvement in addressing and managing the impacts of climate change.
Indonesian cave art overturns thinking on the roots of human spirituality
Archaeologists discovered a cave painting which portrays a group of part-human, part-animal figures hunting large mammals with spears or ropes.
Researchers analyze artifacts to better understand ancient diet
New research on ancient dietary practices, the evolution of agricultural societies and how plants have become an important element of the modern diet.
Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction
New evidence gleaned from Antarctic seashells confirms that Earth was already unstable before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Tasoula Hadjitofi: “The Icon Hunter”
The book presentation of Tasoula Hadjitofi about her struggle against the illegal trafficking of cultural treasures from Cyprus’ Occupied Territories.