The Acropolis Museum excavation has become an archaeological site open to the public
While excavating the Makriyannis plot of land, part of the ancient city’s residential network came to light in successive construction phases.
The Mystery of pregnant woman burial with skull hole is solved
About ten years ago archaeologists discovered a medieval grave of a woman found with a hole on her skull and a foetus between her legs in Imola, Italy. Now researchers attempt to solve the mystery with a new study.
Decade of fossil collecting gives new perspective on Triassic period, emergence of dinosaurs
After a great mass extinction shook the world about 252 million years ago, animal life outside of the ocean began to take hold.
Tracking the spread of early hunter-gatherers through language
Scientists have further evidence that an ancient family of languages spread over most of the Australian continent in the last 6000 years, rapidly replacing pre-existing languages.
Marble statuette of the goddess Hygieia in the hands of antiques traffickers
The statuette belongs to the type known as the Hope Hygieia and is a miniature copy from late Hellenistic –early Roman times after a large original of the 4th century BC.
Pompeii site yields new astonishing findings
Archaeologists working on Pompeii archaeological site have unearthed new remains of public and private areas.
Archaeology shines light on 6,000 years of history
The finds mean experts now have a much better understanding of how the Cambridgeshire landscape was used over 6,000 years of occupation.
Northerners have always been hardy!
Pioneering early people who lived at the end of the last ice age actually carried on with life as usual despite plummeting temperatures, a study at a world-famous archaeological site in North Yorkshire suggests.
An Egyptian sarcophagus that was thought to be empty contains mummy remains
Archaeologists at the University of Sydney, Australia, were surprised when they found a sarcophagus they thought was empty, stored for more than 150 years, contained the remains of a mummy.
New technology reveals secrets of famous Neandertal skeleton La Ferrassie 1
In the case of La Ferrassie 1, these approaches have made it possible to identify new fossil remains and pathological conditions of the original skeleton as well as confirm that this individual was deliberately buried.
Parts of the Amazon thought uninhabited were actually home to up to a million people
Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research shows.
The Tomb of Kha and Merit
Register to attend the lecture by Dr Eleni Vassilika, on Thursday, March 29, 2018.
From the archive of Dimitris Manikas. Athens and Vienna
The Benaki Museum / Pireos 138 inaugurates on Wednesday 28 March 2018 at 20:00 a retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of the architect Dimitris Manikas.
Α music trip through time with the sounds of the ancient hydraulis
On Friday 30 March 2018, at 7 p.m., the Acropolis Museum welcomes the summer season with a unique music concert in the Parthenon Gallery.
Linguistic analysis finds Dravidian language family is approximately 4,500 years old
The origin of the Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 varieties spoken by 220 million people across southern and central India and surrounding countries, can be dated to about 4,500 years ago.
Delos, the Sacred Island
We are happy to announce the launch of our YouTube channel! Our first video is about Delos, the Sacred Island.
Unfolding a Mountain
Unfolding a Mountain has an innovative and thoughtprovoking approach to the neglected topic of the role of caves in the modern and recent historical past in Greece.
Hidden medical text read for the first time in a thousand years
With X-ray imaging at SLAC’s synchrotron, scientists uncovered a 6th century translation of a book by the Greek-Roman doctor Galen.
5,000 years of history brought to light in excavations in Thrace
Archaeological remnants of human activity in Thrace from the Neolithic (4th millennium BC) to the post-Byzantine period have been brought to light from archaeological excavations, carried out in the context of construction works for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.
Skilled female potters travelled around the Baltic nearly 5000 years ago
Was it the fine pottery itself, or the artisans who made it, that moved around the Baltic Sea region during the Corded Ware Culture of late Neolithic period?
Germany was covered by glaciers 450,000 years ago
New chronological data for the Middle Pleistocene glacial cycles push back the first glaciation and early human appearance in central Germany by about 100,000 years.
Mysterious head of a pharaoh discovered by Swansea Egyptologist
Swansea University Egyptology lecturer Dr Ken Griffin has found a depiction of one of the most famous pharaoh’s in history Hatshepsut on an object in the Egypt Centre stores.
Two Olmec busts are returned to Mexico by Germany
Two Mesoamerican busts have been returned to Mexico by Germany in a repatriation ceremony on Tuesday.
First evidence of live-traded dogs for Maya ceremonies
Isotope analysis led to the conclusion that the Maya raised and traded dogs and other animals, probably for ceremonial use.