The ideal Pre-Raphaelite beauty was Greek…and an artist in her own right!
Marie Spartali Stillman modeled for most of the Preraphaelites and was a tireless artist herself, producing around 150 paintings!
The 12 Labours of Herakles
The conference "The 12 Labours of Herakles: Between Iconography and Literature" will take place on June 4-5-6-7-8, 2019 in Velletri (Rome).
Controversy and rising prices at auctions of works by Hitler
Auctions of Hitler’s works often cause controversy in Germany, where the recognition of Nazi crimes is a key part of national identity. Collectors and foreigners in general are ready to spend large sums of money to acquire a work by
Dog burial as common ritual in Neolithic populations of north-eastern Iberian Peninsula
Coinciding with the Pit Grave culture (4200-3600 years before our era), coming from Southern Europe, the Neolithic communities of the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula started a ceremonial activity related to the sacrifice and burial of dogs.
Radiocarbon dates show the origins of megalith graves and how they spread across Europe
Study answers the question of how and where megalith graves arose.
New International Competition for the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST)
As stated in a relevant announcement by the Ministry of Culture, at the last meeting, the Committee in quorum rejected twelve applications for the position.
Exceptional new titanosaur from middle Cretaceous Tanzania
An exceptional sauropod dinosaur specimen from the middle Cretaceous of Tanzania represents a unique species and provides new insights into sauropod evolution.
Biocolonizer species are putting the conservation of the granite at Machu Picchu at risk
A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has evaluated the role of micro-organisms colonizing the Sacred Rock at Machu Picchu in its state of conservation.
Cherchez la femme
The panel seeks to address the role of women in the Hellenistic political scene both as a historical phenomenon at large and as a historiographical or literary topos.
Evolution and Entanglement
Evolution and Entanglement is the title of the upcoming ACE Flagship Seminar by Ian Hodder (Standford University).
Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things
A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds.
Natural History Research suggests life thrived on Earth 3.5 billion years ago
3.5 billion years ago Earth hosted life, but was it barely surviving, or thriving?
Macaque fossils discovered at the bottom of the North Sea
Together with two colleagues from the Netherlands, Senckenberg scientist Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke examined the teeth of several macaques from the bottom of the North Sea.
“Alcyonis” cinema has been classified as a monument
The Alcyonis cinema that started to operate in 1968 was designed by civil engineer Vangelis Sideris.
MoMA to close for four months
It was also announced that the Rockefeller family donated 200 million dollars to the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
‘X-ray gun’ helps researchers pinpoint the origins of pottery found on ancient shipwreck
About eight hundred years ago, a ship sank in the Java Sea off the coast of the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.
T. rex: Flexible Head
Senckenberg scientist Ingmar Werneburg, together with an international team, re-examined the skull structure of Tyrannosaurus rex.
This is how today’s wars resemble the medieval wars in Nordic areas
There are many ways in which to understand the new wars of today. One way is to look at the wars that took place in medieval times.
Robert McCabe: the photographer as narrator
Guided tour of the tribute to the American photographer Robert McCabe entitled ‟Chronography-An Exhibition for the 180th anniversary (1837-2017) of the Archaeological Society″.
Work by Banksy in the British Museum for the first time
It is the ‟Di-faced Tenner”, an counterfeit ten pound note with the face of Princess Diana.
Three Research Fellowships in Late Ancient Philosophy, Biblical Early Christian Studies
Three research fellows at the level of PhD candidate required for project studying one of the most fundamental ideas of ancient Greek culture – the search for perfection.
Timeline of Denisova Cave occupation revealed
The timeline of ancient hominin occupation of Denisova Cave by Denisovans and Neanderthals has been refined by new dates reported in two papers published in this week’s Nature.
Job openings at the Department of Egyptian Art of the Met
Two positions are open in the Department of
Egyptian Art, one for an Assistant Curator and a second for
a Research Assistant.
These strange fossils are closely related to sea urchins
Just a few centimeters long, these animals thrived in the ocean roughly half a billion years ago. Because of their odd morphology, scientists have long struggled to find their branch on the tree of life.