Artist’s drawings found under famous Da Vinci painting
Two different drawings of the Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci lying beneath the painting have been revealed with the use of cutting edge imaging techniques.
Places we once called home
From the deep past, scientists are uncovering the stuff that makes us human—from forward planning, to the very beginnings of art. One of these discoveries is that our ancestors were not homebodies. We were wanderers who kept our stays short.
Student’s find in Peru offers lesson in how archaeologists piece together stories of a people
Caroline Coolidge was stunned. The rising second-year was digging at the archaeology field school in San José de Moro, Peru, and there in the dusty dirt a small face stared up at her...
The Mesoamerican attraction to magnetism
Potbelly statues: Depictions of the ruling elite? A way to honor dead ancestors? Or perhaps portrayals of women giving birth?
Gene transcripts from ancient wolf analyzed after 14,000 years in permafrost
Sample from an ancient canid gives a first look at the new field of paleo-transcriptomics.
Inspection of the elevator to the Acropolis
After fifteen years of continuous use since being installed, today’s elevator is already old and malfunctioning.
How the Islamic world influenced western art
This exhibition examines the idea of Orientalism, offering another look at this cultural relationship.
Who dominates the discourse of the past?
Male academics, who comprise less than 10 percent of North American archaeologists, write the vast majority of the field's high impact, peer-reviewed literature.
A musical evening on August Full Moon at the Acropolis Museum
On Thursday 15 August 2019, at 9 p.m., the Acropolis Museum invites visitors to its entrance courtyard on a musical journey under the August Full Moon.
Impressive building of the Middle Neolithic discovered in Koutroulou,Magoula
The tenth archaeological season was completed last week of the Archaeological and Archaeological Ethnography Project of Koutroulou Magoula.
Leigh Fermor house opens to public
Necessary repairs have been completed and the Patrick & Joan Leigh Fermor House is ready to host scholars and artists as well as welcome visitors.
Changes in human diet shed light on human evolution
A shift in diet has long been seen as one of the critical adaptations that distinguishes our own genus Homo from earlier human ancestors.
Using artificial intelligence to fill in gaps in ancient texts
Enrique Jiménez is engaged on the reconstruction of the beginnings of world literature with the help of artificial intelligence.
Archaeologists uncover alignment of six stelae standing stones
The ritual stones date from the Neolithic period (around 2500BC) and were discovered close to where, during the 1960’s several tombs and standing stones were previously discovered.
“The Mysterious East” comes to Athens in November
126 valuable, representative works by Qi Baishi are to be exhibited for the first time in Athens, revealing his very personal style and accomplishments.
Εarliest known lunar calendar may be an engraved pebble
The oldest known lunar calendar may be an engraved pebble dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic found in Velletri, in the Alban Hills, south of Rome.
World’s smallest fossil monkey found in Amazon jungle
A team of Peruvian and American scientists have uncovered the 18-million-year-old remains of the smallest fossil monkey ever found.
The oldest known forerunners of fresco paintings in the Mediterranean
Researchers from the Universities of Beirut and Tübingen have analyzed 4000-year-old murals in a Bronze Age palace in Lebanon.
Archaeologists in Egypt complete underwater research at Canopus and Heracleion
The Egyptian-European Archaeological Mission of the European Institute of Marine Archeology completed the current season’s work at the underwater site of Canopus and Heracleion, in the Gulf of Abu Qir, Alexandria.
3-D model of 18th century slave ship brings a harrowing story to life
A 3-D model of an 18th century slave ship, which captures the cramped, dirty and stifling conditions experienced by enslaved Africans, has been launched as a new digital teaching tool.
Mosaics of Thessaloniki and Ravenna ‟converse” at the Rotunda
The "conversations" take place in the exhibition "The glow of the mosaic, authentic and copies from Thessaloniki and Ravenna″.
The road to Scandinavia’s Bronze Age
Study results reveal a crucial dependency on British and continental European trading sources during the beginnings of the Nordic Bronze Age.
Pottery from unknown culture found in Ecuador
Archaeologists have found shards of ceramic vessels referred to the cultural sediments of early periods of Real Alto site.
First reports after the earthquake in Attica
The Directors General both of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage and of Restorations, Museums and Technical Works were responsible for immediately gathering reports on records of possible damages to monuments and archaeological sites in Attica following the earthquake last Friday. Minister