Revealing a Neolithic household
A lecture for “House 1” at Dikili Tash, where the oldest wine making site in Europe was revealed.
Karabournaki 2012
The results of the 2012 excavational season at Karabournaki will be presented today in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
New finds at Aigai
Three impressive funerary monuments which might open a new chapter to the study of the evolution of the so-called Macedonian Tombs have been discovered.
Street uncovered in Agora of Smyrna
Turkish archaeologists have revealed a street similar to the Arcadian street of Ephesus in İzmir during excavations at a nearby historical agora.
The Delphi hippodrome has been located
“It was springtime; the place was full of yellow flowers and while we were making our first reconnaissance survey to the north, our glance stopped at a point over the olive grove where the yellow flowers looked as if laying in curves, one on top of the other. The slope had an almost theatrical aspect, reminding directly the hippodrome’s sphendone”.
Explorers find evidence of 2,500-year-old planned city
Discovery being billed as India’s biggest archaeological find in at least half a century.
Vergina 2012: The excavation at the ‘Tsakiridis’ Section
New and interesting finds which confirm the assumptions of previous excavation seasons about the ancient city of Aigai during the Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial period.
Syria’s ancient Palmyra on brink of destruction
It has been reported that Assad forces have struck the Roman Temple of Bel, the Fakhreddine II citadel, Al-Basateen and the Monumental Arch, while the city's museum has been looted.
Digging Pella, a trade and administrative centre
New data from the university's excavational programme in Pella's Agora will be presented by Prof. Ioannis Akamatis and his colleagues during the annual Conference for the Archaeological Work in Macedonia and Thrace.
Man arrested for looting
A 57-year-old man, who had ancient objects in his possession in order to sell them, was arrested yesterday morning near the railway station Larissis in Athens.
Excavations at the ancient mines of Pangeon
Markos Vaxevanopoulos will present a paper about the excavation surveys in ancient mines of Mount Pangeon, in the conference about the Archaeological Work in Macedonia and Thrace, which starts tomorrow in Thessaloniki.
Nelly’s in Sofia
Photographic exhibition with works of Nelly's, titled "Dance and Antiquities", is opening today in the National Academy of Art in Sofia.
One of the world’s oldest clocks unearthed in Egypt
Ostracon with a hole in its base and a drowing of a semicircle divided into 12 sections was used to measure the time -now and in the afterlife.
50,000 skeletons in central London
Archaeologists announced they have found an unknown burial site, which could be the final resting place for as many as 50,000 victims of the Black Death (plague), more than 650 years ago
Masterpieces from the Picasso Museum to Zagreb
Picasso exhibition at the palace of Klović opens on March 23rd.
Medieval knight found in Scotland parking lot
A 500-year old skeleton of a man alongside a stone slab carved with a cross and sword was found in a parking lot in Edinburgh
Ancient Chinese coin found on Kenyan island
Evidence of trade between China and east Africa decades before European explorers set sail and changed the map of the world.
Princesses’ exhibition extended
The exhibition “Princesses of the Mediterranean in the Dawn of History”, presented at the Cycladic Art Museum, will be on show until May 8.
The Dark Side of the Sun
Art from the period depicts Amarna as an idyllic city of plenty, but the cemetery tells a different story.
The Archaeological Work in Macedonia and Thrace
This year's meeting will take place at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, on March 20th-22nd, 2013.
Stolen Rembrandt recovered in Serbia
Rembrandt’s stolen “Portrait of the Father” (c. 1630) has been recovered in an operation carried out by the Department of Criminal Police and Novi Sad Criminal Police.
Imagining the Balkans
This travelling exhibit “Imagining the Balkans. Identities and Memory in the long 19th century”, focuses on the constitution and evolution of modern nations in South-East Europe during the 19th century.
Stonehenge builders travelled from far, say researchers
Thousands of people came from across Britain to help build Stonehenge, experts investigating the origins of the monument have said.
Phaistos and Ayia Triada in the Prepalatial period
The next Minoan Seminar will be given by Simona Todaro (Universita di Catania).