Evidence of gladiator-animal combat in Roman period
A groundbreaking study has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period.
Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange
Study challenges assumptions about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, one of the most influential maritime cultures in history.
Anonymous Grant Restores Cancelled NEH Fellowship Funding
The American School is pleased to announce that it has received an unsolicited anonymous grant to cover the loss of the NEH funding.
Bronze Age cymbals from Dahwa: Indus musical traditions in Oman
The authors present a pair of third-millennium BC copper cymbals, excavated at Dahwa, Oman.
Dinosaurs’ decline prior to asteroid may be due to poor fossil record
The study analysed the fossil record of North America in the 18 million years up to the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period.
Painted altar adds new context to mysterious Maya history
A newly discovered altar is shedding new light on the 1,600-year-old tensions between Tikal and the central Mexican capital of Teotihuacan.
Oldest vanilla in Europe identified
The subject of the new study is a vanilla pod discovered in the infill of the floor vault of the Vladislav Hall at Prague Castle.
Mamluks, 1250-1517 at the Louvre
Recounting the unique, glorious history of an Egypto-Syrian empire that brought about a golden age in the Near East during the Islamic period.
Country Lives exhibition in Nottingham
This exhibition, opening April 10th at Lakeside Arts, explores varied themes including work, leisure, health and access to the countryside.
Figuring Death in Classical Athens
The book pulls together exemplary texts and objects and makes each accessible to readers from multiple sub-disciplines.
Symposium: Balkan and Aegean artistic identities
The symposium aims to shed light on the artistic and cultural identities that flourished in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Balkans and Aegean.
University of Crete, Summer School in Classics 2025
The Organising Committee of the Summer School in Classics at Rethymnon offers partial bursaries for students to attend the 2nd Summer School.
Modern magic unlocks Merlin’s medieval secrets
Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300 have been discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project.
New Discoveries at the Ramesseum in Luxor
Archaeologists have uncovered tombs, storage areas but also the site of a temple school!
A funerary relief from a tomb in the necropolis of Porta Sarno
A funerary relief showing the almost life-size figures of a couple from a tomb in the necropolis of Porta Sarno has been discovered.
Children participated in cave paintings
Why did ancient humans bring their young children to cave painting sites, deep underground and through dark, meandering, hazardous passages?
First ancient genomes from the Green Sahara deciphered
A new study reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara more than 7,000 years ago.
Modelling the demography of agricultural transitions
Using a mathematical model, researchers have identified potential societal impacts based on demographic changes.
Clay jug painted with camel unearthed in Yatir Forest excavations
The discovery was made during works to improve accessibility to the site, an initiative by the Jewish National Fund-KKL.
Renowned archaeologist Georgios Korres passed away
Renowned Greek archaeologist and academic Georgios S. Korres passed away on Monday, March 31, 2025, at the age of 85.
Even the common people drank wine in Troy
Chemical analysis yields first evidence of wine from depas goblets – and the upper classes were not alone in enjoying such luxuries.
Studentship in Roman History or Latin Language and Literature
The Department of Classics at the University of Reading invites applications for a funded PhD studentship on Roman History and/or Latin Language and Literature.
Assessing the Sacred Significance of Figurative Terracottas
The AIA Colloquium addresses the varied conditions that might lead to the inference that a terracotta was invested with religious meaning.
Oxford University Numismatics Society Graduate Colloquium
Abstracts for the Oxford University Numismatics Society’s termly Inter-Institutional Graduate Colloquium are to be sent by 7th May.