Classical Origins of Renaissance Aesthetics
The Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) welcomes proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2020 meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Philadelphia, PA.
3-D model of 18th century slave ship brings a harrowing story to life
A 3-D model of an 18th century slave ship, which captures the cramped, dirty and stifling conditions experienced by enslaved Africans, has been launched as a new digital teaching tool.
Mosaics of Thessaloniki and Ravenna ‟converse” at the Rotunda
The "conversations" take place in the exhibition "The glow of the mosaic, authentic and copies from Thessaloniki and Ravenna″.
Fifth British Egyptology Congress (BEC5)
Egypt Exploration Society is partnering with Durham University to organise the fifth British Egyptology Congress, which will take place in September 2020.
The road to Scandinavia’s Bronze Age
Study results reveal a crucial dependency on British and continental European trading sources during the beginnings of the Nordic Bronze Age.
Pottery from unknown culture found in Ecuador
Archaeologists have found shards of ceramic vessels referred to the cultural sediments of early periods of Real Alto site.
First reports after the earthquake in Attica
The Directors General both of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage and of Restorations, Museums and Technical Works were responsible for immediately gathering reports on records of possible damages to monuments and archaeological sites in Attica following the earthquake last Friday. Minister
Secrets of a Babylonian Villa in Ur
Ur is one of the world’s oldest cities. What was life like for its inhabitants some 4000 years ago?
Large sanctuary complex revealed in Geroskipou-Pachyammos
The sanctuary complex comprises a Greek style temple ‘peristyle in antis’ surrounded by a ‘peribolos’ wall, or an enclosure.
Pleistocene/early Holocene Mesoamerican stone tool tradition documented
Scientists from The University of New Mexico led a study in Belize to document the very earliest indigenous stone tool tradition in southern Mesoamerica.
From the Black Sea to the Cotswolds: Rare glass fish
Part of an 1,800 year-old glass fish, the only one of its type ever discovered in Britain, has been discovered in Gloucestershire.
Statues of Artemis and Apollo discovered at ancient Aptera
The Chania Ephorate of Antiquities is going ahead with the official presentation of an important archaeological discovery on Wednesday July 24.
Row between volcanologists and archaeologists over Pompeii’s ruins
A conflict has broken out between volcanologists and archaeologists about the volcanic rocks being chipped away in order to reveal the city’s treasures and secrets.
Archaeological evidence verifies long-doubted medieval accounts of First Crusade
An archaeological dig on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion has confirmed previously unverified details from the First Crusade in July of 1099.
NetWood: Wood Networks in Egypt from Antiquity to Islamic times
The “NetWood” conference aims to study in a diachronic and transdisciplinary way the economic and social networks around the use of wood in Egypt and Nubia from the Predynastic to the Ottoman period (AD 1914). Different local wood species are
La vaisselle en pierre des reines de Pépy Ier
Stone Vessels for the Pharaoh’s Ladies... Publication about the material found in the cemetery of the family of King Pepy I of the 6th Dynasty.
Ostraca de Krokodilô II
This volume contains private letters exchanged between the inhabitants of Krokodilo and the neighbouring forts, Phoinikon and Persou.
Slender-billed albatross skull from Pliocene discovered in New Zealand
Ornithologist Gerald Mayr, in conjunction with Alan Tennyson describe a previously unknown, extinct albatross species from the Pliocene.
Mytilene: A 57-year-old tourist was arrested with fragments of the petrified forest
He is the third tourist to Lesbos this summer to have been arrested with parts of the petrified forest of western Lesvos.
New Roman mosaic floor from Alexandria
Archaeologists of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw expedition found a the floor mosaic at the Kom el-Dikka site.
Tut’s golden coffin undergoes first restoration
It was transported to the GEM from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor in order to be restored for the first time since the tomb's discovery in 1922.
How did Mesolithic hunter-gatherers respond to changing climate?
The development of new hunting projectiles by European hunter-gatherers during the Mesolithic may have been linked to territoriality in a rapidly-changing climate.
Our Sacred Beauty – Byzantine icons from Thessaloniki
All icons exhibited highlight in a silent but dynamic way the sacred beauty that was born in the city of Thessaloniki.
Heirs of last German Kaiser claim thousands of artworks
Negotiations are seen as continuing over a long period of time since “At the moment, the positions of the negotiating parties are still very far apart.”