The police recorded 180 objects, including pottery vessels, textiles and objects of metal representing the Pre Columbian cultures of Inca, Chimu and Chancay.
The Europa Nostra Team has announced the 27 winners of the 2014 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage and invites the public to vote for their favourite heritage achievements among them.
Were the tomb's "eponymous" tenants emulating the names of their contemporary celebrities or they were just "children of their time" bearing usual names?
Wandering back towards some early, 'non scientific,' understandings of the politics of Late Minoan CreteLecture on the path of Proust... The lecture will be given on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 7.00 p.m. at DIKEMES/CYA in Athens.
Archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology (OA) and a team of volunteers carry out the survey and excavation, while, at the same time, a a team from Newcastle University is also working in another part of the site.
The hoard consists of two different kinds of denominations: 18 are solidi, 11 are so called tremissis coins (equal one third of a solidus). The deposit was found in a Coptic chapel that was installed in a Pharaonic tomb.
Henri Matisse’s painting "Profil bleu devant la cheminée" (Woman in Blue in Front of a Fireplace) dated 1937, to be returned to art dealer Paul Rosenberg’s heirs. The painting is no longer on display at HOK.
Two colossal statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III recently revealed by archaeologists led by Dr. Hourig Sourouzian in Kom el Hetan, in Luxor, Egypt, have been finally raised again, adding to the well-known pair known as "The Colossi of Memnon".
On Thursday, 27th March 2014, Dr. Elena Kountouri will give a lecture entitled “Diverting the rivers and taming the lakes: The Mycenaean water management system in the North Kopais after the recent systematic investigations”.
Exhibition at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago shows how the living cared for the dead and how the ancients conceptualized the idea of the human soul in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant.
The search for Portrait of a Woman, a painting by Gustave Klimt stolen from a gallery in Piacenza, Italy, 17 years ago, has started again as Italian police authorities have reopened the cold case according to recent statement.