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
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.
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.
More than 50,000 visitors have seen the exhibition “Ice Station Antarctica” at the cultural centre of the Foundation of the Hellenic World “Hellenic Cosmos”.
John Seiradakis and Kyriakos Efstathiou presented for the first time to the public the most recent model of the Antikythera Mechanism and the results of their long-lasting research about the ancient "computer".
Ceramics, pottery pots, human and animal bones, stone tools, various agricultural tools made from limestone, different types of stone graters and mortars were found during the excavations.
An interdisciplinary research group of the University of Crete, the Technological Institute of Crete and the University Hospital of Heraklion created a facial reconstruction of Saint Eutychius, based on the saint's skull.
The governors of ancient Asswan in Egypt suffered from malnutrition and infectious diseases, dying before they were 30 years old, according to research on the Qubbet el-Hawa mummies