The Underwater Μuseum at Alonnisos in an AFP press release
Alonissos wants to make four more shipwrecks accessible to divers around the world.
New species of pseudo-horses living 37 million years ago
The palaeotheriidae mammals inhabited the subtropical landscape of Zambrana (Álava) about 37 million years ago.
The ethics of remote sensing in archaeology
The principles of remote sensing are not codified the same way as in-person archaeology, and therefore, there are no ethical guidelines that pertain specifically to remote sensing.
The old Acropolis Museum will operate again in two years time
According to the planning, it will host exhibitions as well as housing a conservation workshop open to public viewing.
Stone tool tells the story of Neanderthal hunting
Museum of Prehistory in Blaubeuren presents the “Find of the Year”, a leaf point from the University of Tübingen’s excavation at Hohle Fels Cave.
News about the Tollund man’s last meal
New studies show that the Tollund man's last meal was nutritious, contained fish and was slightly burnt.
23-month position in the Study of Coptic Magic
The project The Coptic Magical Papyri: Vernacular Religion in Roman and Early Islamic Egypt at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg is pleased to announce a vacancy.
Research ‘final nail in the coffin’ of Paranthropus as hard object feeders
New research from the University of Otago debunks a long-held belief about our ancestors’ eating habits.
The 2020 Grand Archaeology Award to the Dikili Tash Team
The Greek-French team of Dikili Tas returned to the excavation field this summer, after a break in 2020 due to the pandemic.
Observing the Scribe at Work
This volume collects contributions on scribal practice as it features on diverse media (including papyri, tablets, and inscriptions) in a range of ancient societies.
Unknown types of ancient Greek textiles identified
A Warsaw University archaeologist has uncovered the identity of dozens of previously unknown types of textiles found on Bronze Age seal imprints from Greece.
Widespread cultural diffusion of knowledge started 400,000 years ago
A study by archaeologists at Leiden University on the use of fire shows that 400,000 years ago knowledge and skills must already have been exchanged via social networks.
Restoration of the Aghioi Theodoroi Chapel at Fourka
The chapel of Aghioi Theodoroi was built around the 15th century, on land of the Iviron Monastery, Mount Athos.
Why weren’t New World rabbits domesticated?
Why were rabbits domesticated in Europe and not the Americas? Recent work by archaeologists gives a simple answer.
Cretan Institutional Inscriptions collection now open access and online
A collection of inscritions from Crete describing public institutions from the 7th c. BC to the 1st c. BC.
Funerary tumulus and shipwreck revealed at the sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion
The tombs reflects the funerary customs of the 4th c. BC Greeks who settled in the area before Alexander.
Opening of the Aigai Necropolis archaeological park
The park occupies an area of 133.4 acres and includes 530 surviving visible burial mounds.
The “Salt Sheep” of Chehrabad
A team of geneticists and archaeologists from Ireland, France, Iran, Germany, and Austria has sequenced the DNA from a 1,600-year-old sheep mummy from an ancient Iranian salt mine, Chehrabad.
Ancient meteorite could reveal the origins of life on Earth
A 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite found lying in the imprint of a horseshoe is likely a remnant of cosmic debris left over from the birth of the solar system and could answer questions about how life began on Earth.
Ceramics in plain sight: The bacini of the churches of Crete
The volume presents the immured glazed vessels (the bacini) located on the façades of numerous churches in the regional unit of Chania.
New finds at Gourimadi, Karystos
This is an extremely important settlement dating back through its findings to the Late Final Neolithic Period.
Let’s replace ‘ancestry’ in forensics with something more accurate
A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach.
Resilience, not collapse: What the Easter Island myth gets wrong
New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core of the Easter Island myth didn't really happen.
Leonardo da Vinci has 14 living descendants
Although the famous Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci died 502 years ago, his "blood line" is still here.