Bronze Age bookkeeping tablets reveal complex society
Using advanced digital imaging technologies, classics professor and archaeologist Dimitri Nakassis is changing long-held perceptions of how prehistoric Greek communities functioned.
New, large sequence panel enables population genetics research in Africa
Geneticists have assembled the largest sets of African genomic data available to date, creating a resource that will help researchers understand the genetic structure of Africa.
Ancient Andean genomes show distinct adaptations to farming and altitude
Andean populations' genomes adapted to the introduction of agriculture and resulting increase in starch consumption differently from other populations.
Swiss archaeologists uncover rare Celtic remains
Archaeologists from canton Lucerne have uncovered rare Celtic remains on a construction site in the city of Egolzwil about 35 kilometres from the city of Lucerne.
The Importance and Symbolism of Warfare in the South-Eastern Aegean during the LHIII period
The 1st meeting of the Mycenaean Seminar this year presents a lecture by Dr. Merkourios Georgiadis.
Three sections of mosaic floors were repatriated from Germany
Two of the mosaics come from Delos and the third from Hadrian’s Library in Athens and they had been removed from the sites in the 1960s.
Bodies preserved in salt for over 2,000 years
Since 1993, several bodies and body parts have been accidentally discovered in a salt mine near the village of Hamzehlu in north-western Iran.
Pompeii was destroyed two months later than previously thought
A recent discovery in Pompeii changes the date of the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient city by two months.
Excavations at the South Palestra in Eretria
From August 23 to September 7, 2018, the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) conducted excavations in the South Palestra in Eretria.
The Night Watch will be publicly restored
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announced that members of the public will be invited to watch the restoration of Rembrandt’s most celebrated masterpiece next year.
World Heritage Sites threatened by rising sea levels
The Venetian Lagoon, the Old City of Dubrovnik and the ruins of Carthage will increasingly be at risk by storm surges and increasing coastal erosion due to sea-level rise.
58 shipwrecks have been located in the Fournoi archipelago
Between the 7th and 29th of September, the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities completed the fourth season of underwater archaeological research.
3rd International Conference “Roman and Late Antique Thrace” (RaLATh)
The National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, and İstanbul Unıversıty host the 3rd International Conference "Roman and Late Antique Thrace" (RaLATh) in Komotini, Greece, (18-21 October 2018).
Oldest evidence for animals found by UCR researchers
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have found the oldest clue yet of animal life, dating back at least 100 million years before the famous Cambrian explosion of animal fossils.
Georadar detects a Viking ship in Norway
Archaeologists armed with a motorized high resolution georadar have found a Viking ship and a large number of burial mounds and longhouses in Østfold County in Norway.
€1.18 million for the self-destructed work by Banksy
The woman who last week bought the work by enigmatic artist Banksy valued at 1.18 million Euros and which self-destructed immediately after it was auctioned in London, has confirmed she will pay Sotheby’s auction house the price for the work.
Exhibition by Dimitris Alithinos at the Lemesos Achaeological Museum
In this exhibition Alithinos creates within an archaeological museum where time does not exist – or where there is a multitude of times, conventionally determined.
Extensive trade in fish between Egypt and Canaan 3,500 years ago
The dorade was caught in the Bardawil lagoon on the northern Sinai coast and then transported from Egypt to sites in the southern Levant.
Parasites from medieval latrines unlock secrets of human history
A radical new approach combining archaeology, genetics and microscopy can reveal long-forgotten secrets of human diet, sanitation and movement from studying parasites in ancient poo.
Important finds from prehistoric Akrotiri, Thera
Inside a building, known as the “House of Benches,” amphoras and small rectangular clay larnakes were found.
Did the ancestors of mammals live underground?
It is an ancient system and has hardly changed in the course of evolution.
‘Vampire burial’ reveals efforts to prevent child’s return from grave
The discovery of a 10-year-old's body at an ancient Roman site in Italy suggests measures were taken to prevent the child, possibly infected with malaria, from rising from the dead and spreading disease to the living.
Egyptian archaeologists discover stele of liberation queens in Aswan
Egyptian archaeologists discovered a limestone stele in Kom Ombo temple area dated back to Early 18th Dynasty or the Liberation war period.
Traces – Textures
The Museum of Byzantine Culture presents the exhibition of the artist Maria Kompatsiari, titled “TRACES-TEXTURES” in the multi-purpose hall “Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou”.