Archaeological findings at the Stélida site, on the Greek island of Naxos, indicate the existence of humans on the island as early as 260,000 years ago.
A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship is vacant in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo. The post is open to applicants with any specialization within Greek and Latin.
A section of Jerusalem’s Lower Aqueduct was revealed in the Umm Tuba quarter (near Har Homa) during the construction of a sewer line in the neighborhood by the Gihon Company.
A Dialogos lecture offering a comprehensive discussion of ancient Greek poetic talk about shoes, slippers and sandals, as well as a sample of iconographic representations.
"The Emotional Life of the Leader in Ancient Greece and Modern America" is the topic of this year's "Ephebe’s Journey" workshop, organized by the Centre of Hellenic Studies.
In this article an outline is made of the museological study on the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Greek Folk Art (MGFA), the main Ethnographic Museum in the country as submitted to the Council of Museums and approved by them in December 2012.
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have announced that they unearthed a Neolithic settlement of 60 two-storey houses, near Mursalevo in Southwest Bulgaria. The houses had been deliberately set on fire.
The world heritage site of Palmyra has been taken over by IS troops. Artefacts have been transferred to safe locations but the international community fears that large buildings and monuments will be destroyed.
Why were so many statues of gods featured with inlaid eyes? Is it to give the sculpture a liveliness through the high polished surface and glance of the material?
"Reappraising Kirrha. New evidence on landscape, economy and society from Southern Phocis" is the title of the next Aegean lecture to be given by Julien Zurbach and Raphaël Orgeolet.
The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) offers three fully financed PhD scholarships from 1 September 2015.