Matiz-Gabo: The chroniclers of Macondo
This exhibition reveals where the photographies of Leo Matiz meet the texts of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Two new creatures discovered from dawn of animal life
Earth’s first complex animals were an eclectic bunch that lived in the shallow oceans between 580-540 million years ago.
Gold of the Pharaohs
An excellent opportunity for the public to experience the delicacy of the Egyptian artists in different forms through an interactive blue-ochre fancy outfitting which will welcome both adults and young people.
Gods of Egypt come to Leiden in October
With the major exhibition Gods of Egypt, from 12 October 2018, the National Museum of Antiquities will be bringing numerous treasures to the Netherlands.
Polish archaeologists discover over 2000 years old lost city in Albania
Polish archaeologists discovered over 2,000 years old lost city of Bassania in Albania.
Regius Chair of Greek and A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture
The School of Histories of Humanities at Trinity College Dublin invites applications for the post of Regius Chair of Greek (1761) and A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture (2017).
In the gaping mouth of ancient crocodiles
The very earliest crocodilians were very different to the beasts we know well today, they were much smaller bodied, slender and had longer legs.
Ancient agricultural activity caused lasting environmental changes in Ireland
Agricultural activity by humans more than 2,000 years ago had a more significant and lasting impact on the environment than previously thought.
Exploring Ancient Nekhen
Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society will be holding a fund-raising study day investigating the important and fascinating site of Hierakonpolis.
Making and Unmaking Memory in the Ancient World
The conference aims to explore a wide variety of aspects relating to the building, dismantling and reconstructing of memory and reputation across the various cultures bordering on the ancient Mediterranean.
Senior Research assistant at Humlab
Humlab invites applicants for a position as a senoir research assistant, covering 50% for 24 months, as part of the research project ”Identities in Flux: Digital cartographies for revisiting Pausanias’ description of Greece”.
New technique provides accurate dating of ancient skeletons
Interest in the origins of human populations and their migration routes has increased greatly in recent years.
Thebes in the First Millennium BC: Art and Archaeology of the Kushite Period and Beyond
This volume is a collection of articles, most of which are based on the talks given at the conference of the same name organised by the team of the South Asasif Conservation Project.
Autopsy by the Ministry of Culture of the Iconistria and Kechria Monasteries on Skiathos
The “Skiathos” Cultural Society has built a long standing collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Sports, with the aim to preserve the katholikon churches of the Panaghia Kechria and Panaghia Iconistria Monasteries.
Archaeologists excavate a prehistoric settlement in Northern Scotland
Over 40 people attended the event organised by Caithness Broch Project and experienced “hands on archaeology” in a series of trial trenches at Thusater Burn near Thurso in the North of Scotland.
Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests
About 99 million years ago, a tiny juvenile frog in present-day Myanmar was suddenly trapped in sap with a beetle, perhaps its intended next meal.
The Athenian and Macedonian News Agency at the paleontological excavation at Pikermi
Apes, rhinos, giraffes, hyenas, animals with a proboscis and other species in east Attica of the Miocene epoch.
Large-scale whaling in north Scandinavia may date back to 6th century
The intensive whaling that has pushed many species to the brink of extinction today may be several centuries older than previously assumed.
Mesomerican turquoise may have different origin than previously thought
Though scholars have long assumed that Aztec and Mixtec turquoise artifacts uncovered in Mesoamerica were imported from the American Southwest, a new isotopic analysis suggests these artifacts likely derived from Mesoamerican sources.
Ancient Egypt and New Technology
The Egyptology program and the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory of Indiana University - Bloomington invite proposals for an international conference on Ancient Egypt and New Technology: Computer Visualization, Virtual Reality and Other Digital Humanities in Egyptology, to be held 19-20 March 2019 at Indiana University.
Rogier van der Weyden Unveiled
Beginning June 14, 2018, The Lamentation of Christ (c.1460-1464) by Rogier van der Weyden will be restored in a specially built studio in the exhibition space of the Mauritshuis.
Cuneiform tablets from Bassetki reveal location of ancient royal city of Mardaman
The place where the clay tablets were found – Bassetki, in Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in Iraq – appears to be the ancient royal city of Mardaman.
A large number of ancient artefacts were found after fire was extinguished
Around 400 whole ancient artefacts were found (vessels, figurines, animal statuettes and a few bronzes) and a large number of fragments of vessels and statuettes.
Achaemenid architecture and its decoration
On Thursday, June 14th, at 7.00 p.m., Michael Douglas Roaf, Professor emeritus for Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Munich, Fellow of the Onassis Foundation / National Hellenic Research Foundation, will give a lecture on "Achaemenid architecture and its decoration".