International Museum Day at the Acropolis Museum
Two special gallery talks and a commemorative medal on the occasion of the International Museum Day.
All the Emperor’s Men?
All 45 tombs contained the remains of people buried in coffins with their legs twisted, according to a burial custom typical of the Qin Dynasty.
Mapping the Via Appia
Lecture about the "Queen of Roads" by Stephan Mols (Radboud University, Nijmegen).
A notebook from Byzantium found at Yenikapi
Made of wood and can be opened like a modern notebook. It has a few pages and you can take notes using wax.
Heritage and identities in a changing urban landscape
Director of the ‘Tophane Heritage Project’, Karin Schuitema presents a multi-vocal biography of an Istanbul neighbourhood.
Predynastic tomb discovered in Hierakonpolis
Contained the mummified remains of a person who died in his late teens ( 17-20 years) and was accompanied with stone tools, weapons and a large number of ivory artefacts
Death of a Phantom
Cornelis Gurlitt died at 81 on Tuesday following heart surgery leaving behind a tangle of questions about what will become of the art hoard confiscated last November in his apartment in Munich.
Destruction and looting at Maaloula
The primary shrine that contains the tomb of St. Takla has been completely burned, and the fate of the holy items which were there, including a large number of the most important icons, is yet to be known.
Sudan’s deserts reveal their secret pyramids
Thanks to an unprecedented $135 million Qatari funding, more than two dozen archaeological projects in Sudan will be supported over the next five years.
Settlement history of Byzantine Attica (4th-12th c.)
Dr Elli Τzavella, Postdoc Researcher at the Leiden University, will give the next Dialogos Lecture at the NIA.
Rock art destruction incident alarms Spanish cultural authorities
A 5,000-year old piece of rock art was chipped off the surface it covered at the Los Escolares Cave, a Unesco protected site near the town of Quesada in Spain's Andalusia region.
Two towers and a basilica in Bursa
The ruins came to light when excavating a tower (dubbed A) which is part of the walls in TopHane.
Art in France through the lens of fourteen cultures
JocondeLab incorporates the whole collections of the French National Museums in a digital catalogue, in fact, the 300, 000 detailed records retrieved from the Joconde Catalogue.
From moving a stone to building a pyramid
Pyramid builders only needed to dampen the sand in front of the sled on which blocks were placed, to reduce the friction caused by pulling it, making it easier to move.
The Body: lived experiences in ancient Cyprus
The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Communications and Works, announces the opening of the temporary exhibition “The Body: lived experiences in ancient Cyprus” at the Cyprus Museum, Lefkosia, on the 17th of May 2014 at 19:00.
Heroic burials from Palaipaphos
Efstathios Raptou (Archaeological Officer, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus) will give a lecture about the heroic burials from Palaipaphos in the framework of the Cyprus Seminar series of the Cycladic Art Museum.
The Echt Hoard: a Late Roman treasure from the edge of the Empire
It was made of silver and gold and consisted of coins, jewellery and tableware to be used by a 5th c. chieftain, loyal to the Romans, who led an area on the egde of the Roman Empire.
Crowd-sourcing Britain’s Bronze Age
Help the British Museum to catalogue and model a fantastic collection of Bronze Age metal artefacts!
Cambridge University museums to stay open to after dark
Exhibits will take on a new life after dark as museums across Cambridge open their doors after dark on May 16.
Ireland’s Troy?
As Ireland marks the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf new research argues that our main source for what happened may be more literary history than historical fact.
Hidden images and lost cities
Αtlas featuring spy-satellite photos taken between 1960 and 1972 in the framework of the CORONA Project, which aimed to shield the US from Soviet nuclear attacks.
New evidence about the monumental ecclesiastical complex at Katalymmata ton Plakoton
A second three-aisled basilica was revealed at the site Katalymmata ton Plakoton of the Akrotiri peninsula in Cyprus.
KV 40: a royal harem of the underworld
Basel Egyptologists reveal five-chamber tomb containing mummified remains of Egyptian and foreign ladies as well as royal sons and daughters of Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III.