Bulgaria’s National History Museum received a huge boost to its classical era and medieval collections on October 9, when it was handed 5000 items seized at the border with Serbia.
As of this week, anyone caught snacking around the Eternal City’s centuries-old monuments and archeological sites could find themselves landed with a fine of up to 500 euros ($650).
Two ancient Roman shipwrecks, complete with their cargo, have been discovered by Italian archaeologists off the coast of Turkey near the the ancient Roman city of Elaiussa Sebaste.
Surveys have shown that the two Kouroi of Corinth have been erected in honor of two 35- year-old men which died at the same time and were buried simultaneously. Soon the two statues will be exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth.
A joint archaeological research project initiated by Turkey, Australia and New Zealand in 2010 is working to map the locations of shelters constructed during the Battle of the Dardanelles. Turkish and Anzac archives have been used in the project, as well as GPS technology.
The tomb of a great Mayan warrior Queen may have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern Guatemala, redefining the understanding of women's political roles during the Classic Maya period.
A letter handwritten by physicist Albert Einstein a year before his death, expressing his views on religion, will be sold on eBay this month with an opening bid of $3 million (£1.9m), an auction agency said.
Archaeologists working at the site of a medieval monastery in Veliki Preslav, one of the former capitals of Bulgaria, have found 101 copper coins said to date from the late 12th to early 13th centuries CE.
Scientists from Turkey and around the world gathered Oct. 2 in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa to evaluate new data from recently conducted archaeological excavations at the ancient site of Göbeklitepe.
The results of scientific tests using replicas of two ancient Egyptian artificial toes, including one that was found on the foot of a mummy, suggest that they’re likely to be the world’s first prosthetic body parts.
So far the Serapeum rescue operation has taken 26 years, but it is now in its final stages and the rock-hewn tombs of the Apis bulls have officially reopened. Nevine El-Aref was at Saqqara to visit the famous galleries.
Some 2,500 years ago, a naval battle took place in September (although the exact date remains unknown) in the straits between the Greek mainland and Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens.
“Every Thessaloni metro station can become a small museum”. With that statement, Christos Tsitouras, CEO of Attiko Metro, referred to the archaeological findings which where discovered during the construction.