The oldest plesiosaur was a strong swimmer
Plesiosaurs were especially effective swimmer. These long extinct "paddle saurians" propelled themselves through the World's oceans by employing "underwater flight".
Nikos Kazantzakis, the eternal world-roamer: his “ascent”
Exhibition presenting known and unknown aspects of the life, work and travels of Nikos Kazantzakis.
A walk round the glamorous new Yves Saint Laurent museum
The Musée Yves Saint Laurent, at No 5 Avenue Marceau, in the heart of the City of Light, next to the Seine, exhibits the couturier’s body of work on the legendary premises of his former haute couture house.
Human societies evolve along similar paths
Societies ranging from ancient Rome and the Inca empire to modern Britain and China have evolved along similar paths, a huge new study shows.
Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5 billion years ago
Microscopic fossils discovered in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock in Western Australia are the oldest fossils ever found and indeed the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth.
Welcome to the 18th century Starbucks
Researchers have published details of the largest collection of artefacts from an early English coffeehouse ever discovered.
Medea’s Love and the Quest for the Golden Fleece
The exhibition will be shown next spring in the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammplung.
Oldest cases of breast cancer and myeloma revealed in scans of mummies
An international team has discovered the world's oldest known cases of breast cancer and multiple myeloma (a type of bone marrow cancer).
Indonesian island found to be unusually rich in cave paintings
A tiny Indonesian island, previously unexplored by archaeologists, has been found to be unusually rich in ancient cave paintings following a study by researchers from The Australian National University (ANU).
Ritual human sacrifice in the Mycenaean palace of Kydonia
"What we expected was uncovered from under the stones in the eastern part: the skull of a young girl among animal skulls, but not whole however", said Mrs. Andreadaki-Vlazaki.
Ancient faeces reveal parasites described in earliest Greek medical texts
Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms infecting the ancient inhabitants of Greece confirms descriptions found in writings associated with Hippocrates, the early physician and ‘father of Western medicine’.
Archaeologists uncover burial sites, statue in Egypt’s Aswan
Egypt's Antiquities Ministry says archaeologists have uncovered four intact burial sites, part of a cemetery and an incomplete statue in different areas in the southern city of Aswan.
Fossil bones of human-sized penguin found on New Zealand beach
Together with a team from New Zealand, Senckenberg scientist Dr. Gerald Mayr described a hitherto unknown fossil giant penguin species.
Hieroglyphic inscriptions illuminate the demise of the Hittites
The political geography of Western Asia Minor at the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 1200 BCE) has finally been established.
Viking imported finds discovered in cemetery works
Expansion works of Byneset Cemetery at Steine Church in Trondheim, Norway has led to the discovery of an imported clasp or brooch dating from the Viking era.
Survey on the cultural profile of Athenians
The survey shows the Acropolis Museum as the most popular destination, since 39% declare to have visited it at least once a year.
Nikolaos Ventouras: A lifetime of innovation
The first retrospective exhibition of Corfiot engraver and artist Nikolaos Ventouras and the only exhibition organised by the artist's estate after his passing, opens today.
The results of this year’s research at the ancient harbour of Lechaion
Between October and November 2017, excavations and digital surveys were made on remains of the two piers of the outer harbour...
Has the world’s most ancient eye been found?
The eye belonged to a long vanished marine organism, a species of trilobite (Schmidtiellus reetae).
Dinosaur parasites trapped in 100-million-year-old amber tell blood-sucking story
Fossilised ticks discovered trapped and preserved in amber show that these parasites sucked the blood of feathered dinosaurs almost 100 million years ago.
Discovery of world’s oldest funerary fish hooks by ANU archaeologists
Archaeologists from the Australian National University has discovered five fish hooks dating from the Pleistocene era, approximately 12,000 years ago on Indonesia’s Alor Island.
Heir to throne of Saudi Arabia purchases “Salvator Mundi”
Crown Prince to the throne of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman is revealed as the purchaser of the work by Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci, sold for 450 million dollars in mid November, according to the “Wall Street Journal”.
Genetics preserves traces of ancient resistance to Inca rule
DNA analysis of present-day populations in the Chachapoyas region of Peru indicates that the original inhabitants were not uprooted en masse by the Inca Empire's expansion into this area hundreds of years ago.
A pioneer new way to analyze ancient artwork
'Macroscale multimodal chemical imaging' reveals details about second century Egyptian painting.