Francesco Morosini and his Legacy on Crete, Athens and the Morea
The Gennadius Library has a wealth of materials that will be exhibited to showcase several important events in the military and administrative career of Francesco Morosini.
Two people were arrested for illegal possession of antiquities
On Tuesday November 12, two individuals aged 42 and 73 were arrested on Kalymnos by the local police for illegal possession of antiquities.
The Acropolis is to be illuminated with the colours of UNICEF
On November 20 2019, it will be 30 years since the United Nation’s signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Research shows people made ropes and baskets during the Paleolithic era
The materials analysed indicate the manufacture of various basketry objects using ropes, without ruling out the possible elaboration of fabrics.
Repatriation of Spyros Louis skyphos vase to Greece
This black figure 6th century BC skyphos vase was given as a gift by the antique dealer Ioannis Lambros to Spyros Louis after his victory in the Marathon race in the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens.
The study for the restoration of the Imaret Mosque of Arta has been approved
The Imaret is an important monument and its history is inextricably linked to the cultural heritage of Arta.
Genetic analysis suggests ‘wise’ bin chickens tamed and sacrificed to Egyptian God
The research, led by Griffith University, investigated historical suggestions that Sacred Ibis were farmed on an industrial scale in order to provide the God of Wisdom Thoth with millions of sacrificed birds each year.
What felled the great Assyrian Empire?
A team of researchers was able for the first time to determine the underlying cause for the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Alpine rock axeheads became social and economic exchange fetishes in the Neolithic
Axeheads made out of Alpine rocks had strong social and economic symbolic meaning in the Neolithic, given their production and use value.
Casablanca by photographer Melita Vangelatou
Casablanca, a port-city with a unique and multifaceted character, is presented at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art through the photographs of Melita Vangelatou.
The export economy of the Iberian Peninsula and their connections with the Eastern Mediterranean
The aim of this lecture is to have a look at the economy of ancient Iberian Peninsula based on the current archaeological evidence.
The Archaeological Museum of Karditsa is impressive
The Archaeological Museum of Karditsa is inside the city’s urban web, in a neighbourhood that could be described as the town’s “islet of culture”.
Modern apes smarter than pre-humans
New research from the University of Adelaide suggests living great apes are smarter than our pre-human ancestor Australopithecus, a group that included the famous "Lucy."
Scientists explore Egyptian mummy bones with x-rays and infrared light
Researchers from Cairo University work with teams at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source to study soil and bone samples dating back 4,000 years.
Terracina: A Cosmopolitan City Near Rome
In a new excavation project undertaken by German and Italian researchers, LMU archaeologists Paul Scheding and Francesca Diosono have uncovered evidence suggesting that Terracina was the site of the first Hellenistic temple in the region.
‘Ghost’ footprints from Pleistocene era revealed by radar tech
The fossilized footprints reveal a wealth of information about how humans and animals moved and interacted with each other 12,000 years ago.
Dr Elena Koundouri talks about the excavations at Gla
The building facilities at the Mycenaean acropolis of Gla are definitely related with the draining works of the lake, according to the head of the excavations, Dr Elena Koundouri.
New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99 million years ago
A new study co-led by researchers in the U.S. and China has pushed back the first-known physical evidence of insect flower pollination to 99 million years ago, during the mid-Cretaceous period.
Early dispersal for quadrupedal cetaceans
Scientists have a relatively precise idea about where whales and their closest terrestrial relatives evolved more than 50 million years ago (early Eocene), thanks to the discovery of ancient cetacean fossils in India and Pakistan.
Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists: an overview
ICE XII brought to the spotlight a number of discoveries and opened new paths in the archaeology of ancient Egypt.
New data on the appearance of bipedalism on earth
Fossils were discovered in Germany of the Danuvius ape who was perhaps the first in the world to stand on its two legs 11.6 million years ago.
Stanford researchers lay out first genetic history of Rome
Rome still holds some secrets, for instance, relatively little is known about the ancestral origins of the city's denizens. Now, an international team led is filling in the gaps.
Motifs in rock art in Sweden show seafaring in the Stone Age
South-west Sweden’s best preserved rock painting has now been dated – it is from the late Stone Age.
Andy Warhol: Revelation
First exhibition to comprehensively examine the Pop artist’s complex Catholic faith in relation to his artistic production.