The Thessaloniki metro station: 300,000 finds from excavation work
According to the Ministry of Culture and Sports, archaeological work has so far cost €169 million.
Parliament voted in favour of the agreement on the Cycladic antiquities
The Ministry of Culture stated in a press release that thanks to this agreement, 161 antiquities of the Cycladic Culture, of unique archaeological and scientific value, are being returned to Greece.
Using science to solve ancient Chinese art mystery
The Cincinnati Art Museum turned to a scientist at the University of Cincinnati for help solving a mystery 1,300 years in the making.
Previously unknown species of dinosaur identified in south-western Germany
Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum lived in the Swabian Alb region – paleontologists reclassify 100-year-old discovery.
Exploring an ancestral Maya neighborhood
The site was identified at a Mennonite farming community, where the remains of collapsed Maya dwellings appear as white mounds that pocket the landscape.
Episkopi on Sikinos: a monument of huge symbolic significance
Press release by D. Athanasoulis to the AMNA.
Researchers discover earliest known stone-age surgery
A team of Indonesian and Australian archaeologists co-led by Griffith University academics has unearthed the skeletal remains of a young hunter-gatherer whose lower left leg was amputated by a skilled prehistoric surgeon 31,000 years ago.
Monumental evidence of prehistoric hunting across Arabian desert
Archaeologists at the University of Oxford’s School of Archaeology have used satellite imagery to identify and map over 350 monumental hunting structures known as ‘kites’ across northern Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq.
Palaepaphos: Unexpected developments during the 2022 excavation season
The Department of Antiquities of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, announces the completion of the University of Cyprus (UC) annual excavations (first phase) on the tumulus of Laona.
The Kore of Thera: a masterpiece has been revealed
The rare masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the 7th century BC, unexpectedly came to light in November 2000 during rescue excavations.
Strengthening cultural heritage resilience for climate change
The Department of Antiquities of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, announces the publication of the final report of the EU Open Method of Coordination (OMC) group.
Neolithic culinary traditions uncovered
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots.
Polish archaeologists study 3,000 years old settlement in Cyprus
One of the most important Bronze Age settlements of southern Cyprus is being studied by an international team of archaeologists under the supervision of an expert from the Institute of Archaeology of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University.
Study of 300-million-year-old faeces finds meat on the menu
Curtin researchers have analysed organic molecules preserved within 306-million-year-old fossilised animal faeces (coprolite) and unlocked a wealth of information about the diets of long-extinct animals and prehistoric ecosystems.
Polish researcher documents 1,000 years old paintings found in Sudan
Paintings from 1,000 years ago showing the Virgin Mary with Christ and two archangels have been documented by Dr. Magdalena Łaptaś from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University.
Traces of Alpine ibex hunters found in Tatra cave
Traces of Alpine ibex hunters from several thousand years ago have been discovered in the Belianske Tatras in Slovakia.
Rare find provides new insight into Etruscan life under Rome
The recent rescue excavation of a burial site in southern Tuscany is providing a previously unseen glimpse of the Etruscan identity.
Titanic as never seen before
New details come to light as the world’s only 8k footage of the Titanic is revealed.
Finest rural estate found in the Negev in Southern Israel
A 1,200-year-old luxurious rural estate, the first of its kind in the Negev, was exposed in archaeological excavations carried out by the IAA.
The enigmatic dragon houses of Euboea
Researchers from the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) and the Ephorate of the Antiquities of Euboea are studying these monumental and enigmatic buildings.
Campus mounds as the oldest known man-made structures in the Americas
New research reveals more information about the LSU Campus Mounds, including the discovery of thousands of years old charred mammal bone fragments.
Sahelanthropus, the oldest representative of humanity, was indeed bipedal
A research team, involving researchers from the CNRS, the University of Poitiers (note 1) and their Chadian partners, examined three limb bones from the oldest human representative currently identified, Sahelanthropus tchadensis.
What drove major changes in ancient Greek society
A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs about what caused radical change on the island of Crete.
Griffin Warrior was likely a local aristocrat
Archaeology magazine highlighted the discovery that a Bronze Age leader was from the region he one day would come to rule.