Reading history in antiquity
Conference examining the reader-response criticism and classical historiography.
Underwater Stone Age settlement mapped out
Researchers have interpreted recent archaeological and geological findings as an old lagoon environment around 9,000 years ago.
Dinosaurs’ rise was ‘more gradual,’ new fossil evidence suggests
The discovery made in Brazil represents the first time that a dinosaur and a dinosaur precursor have ever been found together.
Dinosaur discovery casts light on final flurry of animals’ evolution
A fossil that almost went undiscovered is giving clues to a family of dinosaurs that flourished just before the mass extinction.
19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology
The 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology 2018 will focus on the primary theme "Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World".
Delta Survey Workshop
This workshop aims, as before, to present a venue in which colleagues can share their research and fieldwork at Delta sites over the past two years.
Third Intermediate Period tomb found in Luxor
The Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission working at the Temple of Millions of Years of King Thutmose III, at Al-Deir Al-Bahari on Luxor's west bank, uncovered a Third Intermediate Period tomb at the temple’s southern enclosure wall.
Large Gallo-Roman villa found In Brittany
It is thought that such a massive villa served as the country home of a rich and politically prominent noble family, probably of the Curiosolitae people.
Evidence of human activity 1.4 million years ago in Orce, Granada
During the last campaign at the site of Barranco León in Orce, Granada the research team found remains of stone carving along with cutting and fracturing marks on the bones of animals that lived in the area.
Aegyptiaca Symposium
It focuses on the Egyptian and Near Eastern material from the archaic Greek sanctuaries and on the re-evaluation of the Egyptian cross-cultural interactivity with the Aegean world.
International Ancient Warfare Conference 2017
This conference will be held on the 28th, 29th and 30th of June 2017, at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK. Conference Organiser: Geoff Lee.
Spartacus – History and Tradition
On the 5th-6th of June 2017 the Department of Ancient History at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland, will be organising an international conference titled “Spartacus- History and Tradition”.
Original Dinosaur Claw Sheath Proteins Preserved for 75 Million Years
Citipati osmolskae was an emu-sized dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia during the Cretaceous period...
Hieronymus Bosch and his pictorial world in the 16th and 17th Century
The Gemäldegalerie and the Kupferstichkabinett will stage a studio exhibition displaying their holdings of Bosch's own work, as well as copies made from it and artworks inspired by it.
Ancient toothed turtles survived until 160m years ago
Today’s turtles don’t have teeth; they cut off their food using hard ridges on their jaws. But their ancestors were not so dentally challenged.
A Viking toolkit discovered in the Borgring
Discovered in the “Borgring”, the ring fortress near Køge in Denmark, a 1,000-year-old toolbox is the first direct evidence of life in the Viking castle.
Digital imagery reveals secrets of 800-year-old “royal” book
A lavishly illustrated medieval book which once belonged to King Henry VIII was not created for the royal elite but was actually a tool for teaching, new digitally enhanced photography has confirmed.
The Fate of Neanderthal Genes
A new study by geneticists at the University of California, Davis, shows why the traces of our closest relatives are slowly being removed by natural selection.
Long searched for causeway of Sarenput I came to light
The long searched for causeway of Sarenput I has been discovered by a joint mission from the University of Birmingham and the Egypt Exploration Society at Qubbet el-Hawa.
Postcard from the distant past: our “forefathers” updated?
This image comes from a postcard released in France in relevance to the local (there) Lascaux cave archaeological site. From a first glance, there is just a beautiful and somehow naive picture of an imaginary past. But is it just that?
Santorini eruption: What caused the devastating Bronze Age tsunamis?
Νot the collapse of the caldera walls, but the considerable amounts of pyroclastic flows that spewed out of the volcanic cone, new study suggests.
A giant predatory lizard swam in Antarctic seas near the end of the dinosaur age
Mosasaurs were not dinosaurs, but close relatives of modern-day lizards, that thrived in the seas during the Cretaceous period of the dinosaur age.
Life took hold on land 300 million years earlier than thought
Research pushes back the date for the oldest evidence of life on land to some 300 million years earlier than previously documented.
Exhibition: The State Hermitage Museum, Gateway to History
The exhibition has opened its gates in the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens.