Hundreds of dinosaur footprints found in Polish village
Palaeontologists have found hundreds of fossilised dinosaur footprints dating back 200 million years in a clay pit in Poland.
“KALLOS”: the exhibition will run till January 16
Due to an increased number of visitors, the museum will extend its opening hours from Monday December 20 and over the holiday season.
Open Topic Tenure Track Professorships at JMU
JMU seeks early career researchers with a track record of internationally recognised research in one or more of 6 research priority areas.
Oxford Online Course in Phoenician
The course is aimed primarily at graduate students who will use the language for academic purposes, but others are very welcome to apply.
Non-Stipendiary Research Associates at the ICS
The Institute of Classical Studies proposes to appoint up to six non-stipendiary Research Associates for the years 2022 – 2025.
Record prices for Greek art works in 2021
The monumental work of Konstantinos Parthenis "The Apotheosis of Beauty" secured the the highest price for the Greek art market.
Slavic grave artefacts rediscovered during ‘storage-room archaeology’
Around 40,000 fragments of clay vessels, a dozen metal artefacts and hundreds of human and animal bones uncovered.
Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 50,000-year-old social network across Africa
New archeological study shows ancient connection between populations 3,000 km apart, and provides first direct link between climate change and ancient human social behavior.
N. Ch. Stampolidis and I. D. Fappas (eds.), Kallos. The ultimate beauty
Review of the catalogue of the exhibition held in the Museum of Cycladic Art from September, 2021 to January, 2022.
Discovering sources of Roman silver coinage from the Iberian Peninsula
A new study determines which locations of the Iberian Peninsula may have been mined for silver to produce Roman coinage.
No longer just ‘famine food’ and the ‘fish of death’
Study aims to rewrite the reputation of limpets and ensure their significance to human civilisations is truly and accurately recognised.
Humans reached North Atlantic Islands centuries earlier than thought
New evidence from the bottom of a lake in the remote North Atlantic Faroe Islands indicates that an unknown band of humans settled there around 500 AD—some 350 years before the Vikings.
Arabic calligraphy is an Intangible Heritage of UNESCO
“Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting Arabic script in a fluid manner to convey harmony, grace and beauty.”
Sea level fall led to the decline of pre-Columbian societies 2,000 years ago
Sea level changes caused the decline of one of the longest pre-Columbian coastal societies of the Americas 2000 years ago, known as Sambaqui.
Phanagoria, Russia’s archaeological treasure
The photography exhibition opened on Monday, December 13 at the Epigraphic Museum.
Three Assistant Professorships in Classics at Cambridge
The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint three University Assistant Professors (formerly known as University Lecturers) in Classics from 01 September 2022.
Bridge to the Doctorate Program at the University of Virginia
The program is currently welcoming applications for 2022–23, with a deadline of March 1, 2022.
Lexicalisation and Grammaticalisation in Greek and Latin
The UCL Department of Greek and Latin is pleased to announce an International Conference held at University College London on the 1st-2nd April 2022.
Become a modern encyclopedist
A Highschool Student Competition for writing Encyclopedia Entries on the Greek Revolution of 1821 is being organized by the Onassis Foundation and the Onassis Library.
Mycenae: From Myth to History
The Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge is pleased to announce that an online version of the exhibition Mycenae: From Myth to History is now available.
Europe’s earliest female infant burial reveals…
Working in a cave in Liguria, Italy, an international team of researchers uncovered the oldest documented burial of an infant girl in the European archaeological record.
“The Exodus” by Theodoros Papagiannis pays tribute to the 1821 Revolution
It is an installation in which the sculptor creates the characters according to his own aesthetics and recalls the values of 1821 and the struggle for Freedom.
Ancient fish had a ‘big brain’
CT scanning of fish fossil has given new insights to explain how fish first left the water to invade land about 370 million years ago.
Researchers find climate change record in clam shells
For the first time, researchers identified the monthly, and even weekly, ocean temperatures recorded in smooth clam shells.