International Museum Day 2015
This internationally popular event is an occasion to raise awareness on how important museums are in the development of society.
By the Rivers of Babylon
On display for the first time are original artifacts dating to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian Exile, including clay tablets from the Al-Yahudu archive.
Upright body plan may have evolved multiple times
The fossilized, about 6 inches long hipbone of an ape called Sivapithecus is raising a host of new questions about whether the upright body plan of apes may have evolved multiple times.
Olympus: The Greco-Roman Collections of Berlin
Exhibition featuring over 160 works, including marble statues and reliefs, bronze statuettes, terracotta vases, and jewelry from the Berlin State Museum’s classical antiquities collection, drawn from the Altes Museum and the Pergamonmuseum.
Methodologies in Ancient Material Culture
The Conference on Methodologies in Ancient Material Culture will be hosted at the University of Winnipeg, in Canada, on October 2-4, 2015.
Lepanto: The Naval Battle
The exhibition “Alkis Pierrakos. Lepanto: The Naval Battle” opens its doors today (February 5, 2015), at the at the Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery of Athens.
Hunter-gatherers’ dental “harmony” disrupted by diet shift
Hunter gatherer populations had an almost "perfect harmony" between their lower jaws and teeth. This harmony began to fade with the transition to agriculture.
Fishy cooking habits of North American hunter-gatherers
Archaeologists have discovered the first use of pottery in north-eastern North America was largely due to the cooking, storage and social feasting of fish by hunter-gatherers.
Tonal languages require humidity
Languages with a wide range of tone pitches have primarily developed in regions with high levels of humidity.
The giant pacarana used its teeth as tusks
Josephoartigasia monesi may have used its incisors for activities other than biting, such as digging in the ground for food, or defending itself from predators.
Nineveh wall blown up by ISIS
Large parts of the ancient Nineveh wall were detonated by ISIS, as was announced by a Kurdish official on Tuesday.
Bowhunting may have fostered social cohesion during the Neolithic period
Spanish archaeologists have analyzed the Neolithic bows found in the site of La Draga (Girona, Spain).
Angels: The Bureaucracy of the Divine
Lecture by Hara Papatheodorou (Emeritus Professor of Art History and the Visual Arts, The American College of Greece) at the Canadian Institute in Greece.
Bronze statues attributed to Michelangelo
Two bronze statues, representing two male figures riding panthers, have been identified as the only metal sculptures by Michelangelo.
Clare, a new landmark for Cambridge
Cambridge gained a new landmark when Clare, a sculpture of a T-rex, was unveiled at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences last week.
The Manot people are indeed the ancestors of European populations!
Tel Aviv University discovery also indicates modern humans coexisted, interbred with Neanderthals in the Levant.
“Life is Short but Art is Long”
"Life is Short but Art is Long" opens in the Pera Museum of Istanbul (Turkey) on February 11, 2015. It will last until April 26, 2015 and is organized by the Pera Museum and the Suna & Inan Kıraç Foundation.
Serres: Tomb with coins came to light
An ancient tomb hiding coins and pieces of gold was found on a municipal property, at a distance of 3km from Nea Zichni of Serres.
Fresh excavations at two Harappan sites have begun
Excavation work has started at two major sites of the Harappan civilisation, Binjor and Rakhigarhi.
2,200-year-old moat discovered in Tarragona
Students of Archaeology at the University of Barcelona (UB) have discovered the remains of a 2,200-year-old moat that defended the Iberian town of Vilar de Valls, the ancient city of Valls, in Tarragona.
El Greco’s Modernism
"El Greco's Modernism" is the subject of the art history seminar which will be given by Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Crete Nicos Hadjinicolaou, on Saturday, January 31, 2015, at the Benaki Museum of Athens.
Maya water temple discovered reveals drought
The discovery of a water temple at a Belize site, leads archaeologists to believe that a "drought cult" of the Maya existed.
Paphos during the Hellenistic and Roman periods
Paphos during the Hellenistic and Roman periods will be discussed in the next Cyprus Seminar at the Cycladic Art Museum.
Fishing down the abyss of human roots
A fossilized jaw dredged by a fishing net off the coast of Taiwan may reveal entirely new prehistoric species.