Summer School in Homer 2020
Τhe Summer School in Homer 2020 will be delivered online with live remote teaching.
China’s viticulture in transition
Wine culture going back thousands of years lays the foundation for emerging modern wine industry in the Middle Kingdom.
Study sheds light on alterations by carnivores to Paleolithic campsites
Paper demonstrates the considerable alteration and anatomical bias produced by wild carnivores once places inhabited by Paleolithic hominins have been abandoned.
Digital tour of the “Andy Warhol” exhibition
Tate Modern prepared a 7-minute video for a short digital tour of the exhibition.
Eleni Cubitt has died
Eleni Cubitt was a founding member and longstanding secretary general of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon sculptures.
More Mummy secrets revealed
Conservation of the Perth Mummy, Ta-Kr-Hb, is now well underway as the centre-piece of the current installation in Perth Museum & Art Gallery, Conservation in Action: Saving the Perth Mummy.
Indiana University Egyptology opens their Fall 2020 courses to eligible students
Indiana University courses in Egyptology offered to eligible students anywhere in the world.
Accessibility beyond the Academy: Inclusion in Contemporary Classics
Call for Expression of Interest by John Brendan Knight MA, Postgraduate Research Student University of Liverpool School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology.
Museums thank doctors and nurses
The campaign- under the hashtag MuseumsThankHeroes– was organized by Mara Kurlandsky and Adrienne Poon of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington.
With the unfettered wings of Nike: exhibition of a unique collection
The exhibition comprising the unique collection of the collector-researcher Eleftherios Eleftheriou, records the modern history of the emblematic statue of the Victory of Samothrace.
Watch “Seleucus I the Nicator”
The Ephorate of Antiquities of Kilkis presents the short animated documentary “Seleucus I the Nicator. From Europos to the Hellenistic world”.
ASCSA shares videocasts of presentations in Cotsen Hall
The lectures were presented by the School during the past academic year (October–April) and earlier.
Reminder: 2 Doctoral Positions in Classics and Ancient History
Please note that the deadline for the applications has been extended. New deadline: 30 April 2020.
Early Career Fellowship at the BSA
The deadline for applications for the Early Career Fellowship 2020 - 2021 has been extended to Friday 15th May 2020.
Studentships 2020-2021 at the British School at Athens
Applications and references must be sent by Friday 15th May 2020.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at Macquarie University
The Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) Scheme is now open.
An additional piece added to the evolution of turtles
The results of a recent study indicate a close link between skull evolution and the highly flexible neck of these armored reptiles.
Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic
The discovery helps date the transatlantic migration to about 34 million years ago, around the time a major drop in sea level would have made the ocean voyage shorter.
Genetic network analysis provides ‘snapshot’ of pandemic origins
Researchers from Cambridge, UK, and Germany have reconstructed the early "evolutionary paths" of COVID-19 in humans.
Ancient string discovery sheds light on Neanderthal life
The discovery of the oldest known direct evidence of fibre technology using natural fibres to create yarn is reported in Scientific Reports this week.
A virtual tour in the Tomb of Kheti
Join today in a virtual tour in the tomb of Kheti in Beni Hassan necropolis.
Takis exhibition cancelled at Museum of Cycladic Art
A collaboration of the Museum with the Tate Modern and the MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, which would have opened on My 20 and have run to October 25.
Archaeologists find Ramesses II’s Abydos temple foundation deposit
Archaeologists excavating in Abydos revealed the foundation deposit of Ramesses II's temple, as well as its storerooms.