Rare treasures of Tatoi’s wine cellars revealed
Around 4,000 bottles of wine and beverages have already been archived in 235 crates, with labels of special artistic and historical value.
Climate changed the size of our bodies and, to some extent, our brains
A team of researchers has gathered measurements of body and brain size for over 300 fossils from the genus Homo found across the globe.
The return of the stolen paintings from the National Gallery is proceeding
After an absence of almost nine years the two works of art stolen from the National Gallery in January 2012 will be returning there shortly.
Erieta Attali exhibition at the Byzantine and Christian Museum
The exhibition includes 18 selected large format photographs on the theme of architecture as an integral part of the landscape.
Greco-Roman pottery workshop discovered in Egypt
The workshop has structures dated to the period between the 3rd century B.C and the 1st century, but the site has given Early Dynastic finds too.
Neanderthal artists? They decorated bones over 50,000 years ago
A research team led by the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony State Office for Heritage has analysed a new find from the Unicorn Cave (Einhornhöhle) in the Harz Mountains.
The Council of State says “Yes” to transfer of antiquities from Venizelos Station
It should be noted that after April 19, 2021 the Ministry of Culture and Sports had announced the final content of the Council of State’s decisions.
The dress from “The Birth of Aphrodite” still inspires
American product designer Nik Bentel has circulated exact copies of clothes taken from the famous painting by Sandro Botticelli.
Faecal records show Maya population affected by climate change
Findings suggest that Maya settlement in city of Itzan started earlier and lasted longer than previously known.
Excavations are beginning in ancient Lyttos
For the first time in almost 40 years, new excavations are starting today in ancient Lyttos or Lyktos of Heraklion ‒ a city that for many archaeologists could upstage Knossos in the future.
Dinosaurs were in decline before the end
Palaeontologists have continued to debate whether dinosaurs were already in decline before the asteroid impact.
Plague case 5000 years ago in Latvia
A research team from Kiel University in Germany has found new clues to the evolution of the pathogen, based on DNA from a 5000-year-old plague case.
Where are the Foreigners of the First International Age?
A new study published in PLOS ONE reports genetic and oxygen and strontium isotopic data for individuals buried at Alalakh, finding little evidence for the foreigners mentioned in texts.
The mysterious tomb of Dara reconsidered
Researchers Franck Monnier and Rémi Legros have reviewed the existing evidence.
Nature in Art. The Case of a Byzantine Manuscript
The exhibition hosted in the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of Vlatades in Thessaloniki, presents the manuscript of Dioscoridou Botanike.
Solving of National Gallery theft
The paintings by Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian have been recovered and the theft’s perpetrator arrested.
Burial monument of Amphipolis ready to be visited by 2022
Last Friday, Minister of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni inspected the works being carried out at the Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis.
1.8 million dollars for a painting by Winston Churchill
Churchill had kept this landscape for 40 years, before giving it to his friend Aristotle Onassis in 1961.
How humans brought change to a tropical paradise
After centuries of human impact on the world’s ecosystems, a new study from Flinders University details an example of how a common native bee species has flourished since the very first land clearances by humans on Fiji.
Rare Toulouse Lautrec under the hammer
The painting "Une opération par le Docteur Péan à l'Hôpital International", a work of 1891, depicts an operation in a Paris hospital.
Research finds ‘Fool’s Gold’ not so foolish after all
Curtin University research has found tiny amounts of gold can be trapped inside pyrite, commonly known as ‘fool’s gold’, which would make it much more valuable than its name suggests.
New findings unveil a missing piece of human prehistory
A research team sequenced the ancient genomes of 31 individuals from southern East Asia, thus unveiling a missing piece of human prehistory.
New fossil discovery from Israel points to complicated evolutionary process
Analysis of recently discovered fossils found in Israel suggest that interactions between different human species were more complex than previously believed.
3,000-year-old shark attack victim found by Oxford-led researchers
Oxford-led researchers reveal their discovery of a 3,000-year-old victim – attacked by a shark in the Seto Inland Sea of the Japanese archipelago.