Capturing Byzantium
The Berenson Library (Villa I Tatti / The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) presents a new exhibition with a selection of vintage photographs from the collection of Byzantine art and architecture.
Roman sarcophagus depicting 12 Labours of Hercules to be returned to Turkey
A Roman sarcophagus depicting the Twelve Labours of Hercules will be returned to Turkey, Swiss authorities decided on Friday.
A plague victim and her tragic coffin birth in medieval cemetery
Researchers have identified a rare “coffin birth” in a 14th-century burial ground at the hostel of San Nicolao di Pietra Colice in the Northern Apennines.
The toy boat that sailed the seas of time
A thousand-year-old toy boat from an abandoned water well gives archaeologists tantalizing clues about the culture that produced the object.
Decorated raven bone discovered in Crimea may provide insight into Neanderthal cognition
Two extra notches found in raven bone may have been a symbolic addition.
Leonardo da Vinci’s painting to return to the Uffizi
Leonardo da Vinci's painting Adoration of the Magi has been returned to the Uffizi Gallery after a long and hard restoration of its original colouring that lasted 6 years.
Using Latin to analyse other languages
17th century scholars did not converse in Latin, but they used the language for reading and writing. And it also had a third function.
Students unearth a 2000-year-old Jewish settlement near Bet Shemesh
Boyer High School in Jerusalem will fund most of its youth delegation’s visit to Poland by working at archaeological digs.
Mouse in the house tells tale of human settlement
Ancient mice teeth show settled villages made ecological impact long before agriculture.
Long-lost Jewish cemetery uncovered in Rome
Thirty eight graves were recently uncovered by Italian archaeologists in the Rome’s Trastevere district.
‘Australia’s Jurassic Park’ the world’s most diverse
An unprecedented 21 different types of dinosaur tracks have been identified on a 25-kilometre stretch of the Dampier Peninsula coastline dubbed 'Australia’s Jurassic Park'.
The Anthropocene: Scientists respond to criticisms of a new geological epoch
'Irreversible' changes to the Earth provide striking evidence of new epoch, University of Leicester experts suggest.
Under the Dead Sea, warnings of dire drought
Nearly 1,000 feet below the bed of the Dead Sea, scientists have found evidence that during past warm periods, the Mideast has suffered drought on scales never recorded by humans.
Part of a unique ancient Greek terracotta statue discovered
Part of a unique terracotta statue has been found during underwater surveys near the Ak-Burun Cape.
Mummy shroud rediscovered in Scotland
A unique, full-length mummy shroud, which is over 2,000 years old yet is still in remarkable condition, has been discovered in National Museums Scotland’s collections.
Archaeological evidence found in Spain indicate cannibalism
Archaeological evidence found in a cave in Spain indicate that cannibalism took place among ancient humans in the area about 10,000 years ago.
Huns and settlers may have cooperated on the frontier of Roman Empire
New research suggests that nomadic Huns and Pannonian settlers on the frontier of Roman Empire may have intermixed.
Alabaster statue of Queen Tiye found in Kom al-Hittan
The European Egyptian mission working in King Amenhotep III funerary temple at Kom Al-Hittan area on Luxor west bank, has uncovered a beautifully carved statue possibly of Queen Tiye.
Reconsidering the Middle Minoan Pottery at Phylakopi in Melos
Cycladic Seminar by Dr J.A. MacGillivray.
Intact burial chamber revealed in Qubbet el-Hawa, West Aswan
The Spanish Archaeological Mission in Qubbet El-Hawa, west Aswan, has discovered an intact structure where the brother of one of the most important governors of the 12th Dynasty, Sarenput II, was buried.
New study shakes the roots of the dinosaur family tree
More than a century of theory about the evolutionary history of dinosaurs has been turned on its head.
Egyptian ritual images from the Neolithic period
Egyptologists at the University of Bonn discovered rock art from the 4th millennium BC during an excavation at a necropolis near Aswan in Egypt.