Researchers from the universities of Granada, Santiago de Compostela and Reading (UK) have studied human skeletal remains from the Cova do Santo collective burial cave in northwestern Spain.
Two graves from Passo Marinaro, an ancient Greek necropolis in Sicily, with large amphora fragments and stones covering parts of the bodies, indicate ancient Greeks feared the dead could rise from their graves. “Necrophobia, or the fear of the dead,
“Museums in motion” is an international conference dedicated to exploring the emergent reconsideration of both the content and the role of city museums.
The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) has donated to the National Library of Greece a complete series of its publications, the Hellenic Studies Series.
5,000 year-old footprints were discovered by archaeologists from the Museum Lolland-Faster in Denmark during the excavations for the future Fehrman Belt Fix link giving insight into people's daily lives.
Carbon 14 dating of scarlet macaw remains indicates that interaction between Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, N.M., and Mesoamerica began more than 100 years earlier than previously thought.
South African and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered a new 200 million year old dinosaur from South Africa, and named it Sefapanosaurus, from the Sesotho word "sefapano".
Gold items preliminarily dated to 1600-400 BC have been discovered by a farmer near Jasło in the Subcarpathia. The antique objects have been taken to the Sub-Carpathian Museum in Krosno.
Armand M. Leroi’s The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science (Bloomsbury Publishing) is this year’s winner of the Runciman Award for books published in 2014.
The mummified remains of Peder Winstrup are one of the best-preserved human bodies from the 1600s. Preliminary investigations reveal a sensational find: the internal organs are still in place.
A mosaic floor that appears to be from one of the earliest churches in the history of Christianity was uncovered recently in Nazareth, Israel, at the Church of the Annunciation (Greek Orthodox).
The remains of a three-month-old female dog thought to have died during a landslide near the Syallakh River some 12,450 years ago have been autopsied by researchers of the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk (Russia).
IS militants have planted mines and bombs in the Palmyra site on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that it is not quite clear if the explosives were planted to destroy the site or to deter opposing forces from advancing.
An 8,500-year-old skeleton has been the focus of a bitter dispute between Native Americans and American scientists - new study based on his genome sequence shows that KM is more closely related to modern Native Americans, than to any other population.
INRAP archaeologists excavating the aristocratic tomb of Lavau dated it to the beginning of the 5th century BC. The tomb contains exceptional grave goods.
A hoard of 82 coins has been found in Bulgaria just as it was about to be smuggled out of the country. The coins had been hidden inside three routers, taped to their circuit boards, which were to be sent to the United States via courier.