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.
Significant Bronze Age city discovered in Northern Iraq
Bassetki was only known to the general public in the past because of the “Bassetki statue,” which was discovered there by chance in 1975.
Patagonian fossil leaves reveal rapid recovery from dinosaur extinction event
Ancient feeding marks from hungry insects in South American leaf fossils are shedding new light on the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Grolier Codex ruled genuine
The Grolier contains astronomical Venus tables and day signs, but the later Dresden, Madrid and Paris codices are marked by more complex grammar, explanatory texts and denser imagery.
The rediscovery of Locri
The Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and the CNR-IBAM are conducting a joint multidisciplinary research project for the study of the ancient Greek and Roman city of Locri.
Νew data about the first communities of the Old Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula
A researcher from the University of Granada (UGR) has shed new light on the lifestyle of the first communities in the Early Neolithic (7500-6800 years ago) in the Iberian Peninsula, from the study of stone bracelets.
Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies
On average, herbivorous mammals have a body cavity that is twice as big as carnivores of a similar body size.
A historic monument waits to be rescued and restored
The ruined historic building of the Primary School of the Kato Ambelokipi settlement, in the Municipality of Pylos-Nestoras, which was the headquarters of the Greek resistance in Southern Messenia, between 1941 and 1944.
Between Heaven and Earth: Divination, Prophecy and Oracles in the Ancient World
This conference invites graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty to an interdisciplinary exploration of prophecy, magic, and oracular and divinatory practices in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.
Warratyi Rock Shelter is the oldest evidence of Aboriginal occupation in Australia
La Trobe University led research has uncovered extraordinary evidence of the earliest human habitation of inland arid Australia.