The Buongoverno construction site “reveals” Lorenzetti’s treasures
In 2021 the Municipality of Siena started a project of diagnostics, enhancement and conservation maintenance of the masterpiece by Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
2100-Year-Old Agricultural Farmstead uncovered next to Nahal Arbel
The discoveries (agricultural implements, storage jars, tens of weaving loom weights) shed light on this area in the Hasmonean Period.
Industrial manufacturing of wool and wool textiles in the Bronze Age Italy
Montale in northern Italy may have been one of the earliest centres in Europe for production of wool during the Bronze Age.
A 3400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River
German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered a 3400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city once located on the Tigris River.
250 coffins with mummies and 150 bronze statues found in Saqqara
Extraordinary numbers of finds from new cache and burial shafts found by the Egyptian mission.
Paleontologists found the jaws of an extremely rare bear in Tavrida
Finding suggests that ancient people could have appeared in the Crimea almost 2 million years ago.
Jean-Luc Martinez accused over Tutankhamun Stela Trafficking Case
Jean-Luc Martinez was accused of turning a blind eye regarding documentation of object provenance in the Louvre Abu Dhabi acquisition.
Asia Minor exhibition at the Benaki Museum
The Benaki Museum and the Centre for Asia Minor Studies are co-organisingthe large commemorative exhibition “Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday - Catastrophe - Displacement - Rebirth” to mark the centennial anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe.
Archaeologists reconstruct a bow from the Times of Arkaim
A unique compound bow from the Bronze Age nearly two meters tall was reconstructed from authentic materials.
Climate change reveals unique artefacts in melting ice patches
Norwegian mountains are full of time capsules. Thousands of years of human and ecological history are preserved in remnant patches of ice.
Beyond Macedonia: the multifaceted Hellenistic Oikoumene reconsidered
Sixty renowned researchers will present fifty-six papers at the New Museum of Aigai.
Early urbanism found in the Amazon
Several hundred settlements from the time between 500 and 1400 AD lie in the Bolivian Llanos de Mojos savannah and have fascinated archaeologists for years.
First Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds
Scientists settle debate surrounding 'Thunder bird' species, and whether its eggs were exploited by early Australian people around 50,000 years ago.
The prestigious Francqui Prize 2022 awarded to Veerle Rots
The 2022 Francqui Prize in Human Science is awarded to Veerle Rots for her pioneering research on prehistoric stone tools.
Rare silver coin discovered in Israel
Coin among first remnants from the Bar Kokhba revolt discovered in the caves of Wadi Chariton.
Leicester archaeologists expand excavations at Leicester Cathedral site
The team behind the discovery of Richard III have resumed major archaeological excavations at Leicester Cathedral, close to where the King was found.
The beaver, its prehistoric bone and its reintroduction
Scientists are focusing on the beaver, which has been extinct for years and to whom the town of Kastoria may owe its name.
The National Museum of Scotland presents the silver casket
The silver casket believed to have been owned by Mary, Queen of Scots, is now on display in the National Museums Scotland’s Hawthornden Court.
Eastern Wyoming Paleoindian site as Americas’ oldest mine
Excavations have confirmed that an ancient mine in eastern Wyoming was used by humans to produce red ocher starting nearly 13,000 years ago.
Gold Mycenaean ring returned to Greece
The ring had been found in 1927, during excavations by the Italian Archaeological School at the Mycenaean necropolis of Ialyssos, Rhodes, among the offerings of Tomb 61.
Opening of the exhibition Stone Paths – Stories Set in Stone
The exhibition is based on the scientific publication Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum Graeciae (CIJG) - Corpus of Jewish and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mainland and Island Greece.
Previously unknown crocodile species lived in Asia 39 million years ago
Researchers from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen have identified fossils of a previously unknown crocodile species in Vietnam.
Prehistoric faeces reveal parasites from feasting at Stonehenge
A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of the eggs of parasitic worms.
Where were Herod’s bathtubs quarried?
New research for the first time allows the distinction between calcite-alabaster originating in Israel from that originating in Egypt.