“Archipelago”: Installation at the Cycladic Café
The installation “Archipelago” is based on the heritage of the Cycladic culture and the stylized marble statuettes depicting everyday forms or human figures.
Traditions of Materia Medica (300 BCE – 1300 CE)
The theme of the conference is the transmission of pharmacology (in its many forms) before and after the writings of Galen of Pergamum.
Surveys to locate Pleistocene deposits in the Akamas area
The surveys are part of the innovative, interdisciplinary research program “Water Routes in Human Island Dispersals: Modeling the Pleistocene Exploitation of Cyprus” (PLEICY).
Oldest human traces from the southern Tibetan Plateau in a new light
A new optical dating technique to directly constrain the age of prehistoric stone artefacts from an archaeological site southern Tibet.
The Sensoaesthetic Aspect of Ancient Materials
A workshop organized by Maria Gerolemou (A. G. Leventis Research Associate, University of Exeter) and Thilo Rehren (A. G. Leventis Professor for Archaeological Sciences, The Cyprus Institute).
The Alonissos underwater museum opened on June 1
To date, the shipwreck of Peristera is considered the largest shipwreck of the Classical period and the most important accessible ancient shipwreck in the world.
“Slavery”: the new exhibition at the Rijksmuseum
Ten personal stories of people who lived through the years of the slave trade, either as merchants or as slaves, is the focus of the landmark exhibition.
Digitising the Museums of Cyprus
The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, announces the commencement of the digitisation of ancient movable antiquities which are stored in the Cyprus Museum in Lefkosia.
PhD student in Information Studies
This PhD position at the Uppsala University is part of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program on Humanities and Society (WASP-HS).
New timeline for when people first arrived in North America
An unexpected discovery suggests that the first humans may have arrived in North America more than 30,000 years ago.
Contributions of Experimental Archaeology to Excavation
This Special Issue in the Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports has just been announced.
Newly discovered African ‘climate seesaw’ drove human evolution
Scientists found that ancient El Niño-like weather patterns were linked to the critical timeframe for the evolution of our species.
A non-invasive procedure for obtaining archaeological information
The research, led by members of the CaSEs research group and published in PLOS ONE, represents the first application of pXRF (portable X-ray fluorescence analysis), combined with geostatistical data analysis, to anthropogenic sediments in Africa.
Laurence des Cars is the new head of the Louvre Museum
Des Cars will be the first woman to head the largest museum in the world.
Jebel Sahaba: A succession of violence rather than a prehistoric war
Scientists have re-analysed the bones of the Jebel Sahaba cemetery preserved in the British Museum (London) and re-evaluated their archaeological context.
Ceramic Perspectives on Ancient Egyptian Society
The fifth volume of Ancient Egypt in Context series demonstrates how ceramics can forward the study of Egyptian society writ large.
AMPRAW 2021, Center & Periphery in the Classics
AMPRAW is an annual conference that is designed to bring together early-career researchers in the field of classical reception studies, and will be held for the tenth year. It aims to contribute to the growth of an international network of PhDs
Opening of the “Arethousa” Archaeological Museum of Chalkis
The museum is housed in an industrial building that is a declared monument and a testimony to the industrial activity of the early 20th century.
Refugee-background youth rewrites museum history in Manchester, UK
Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging’ responds to the need for a modern retelling of how ancient objects from Asia and Africa ended up in Britain.
Reading Beauty in Late Antiquity (Online Conference)
The conference will focus on how beauty of the body, its perception, and its evaluation, is reflected in literary texts of the 3rd-6th c. AD.
(Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece
A book on the emergence of the Mycenaeans. Open access option available.
Sheshonq (Shishak) in Palestine
The Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut has organized an online conference on “Sheshonq (Shishak) in Palestine”.
Researchers unearth oldest gold find in Southwest Germany
University of Tübingen archaeologists and Baden-Württemberg heritage officials discover gold spiral in Early Bronze Age grave.
“Inside the Met”: The challenges faced by the museum
A series of documentaries that go behind the scenes of America's largest art museum as curators prepare ambitious anniversary exhibitions.