Ancient Zominthos: Restoration after illegal digging
Restoration of the damages caused by looters at the Zominthos archaeological site on Mount Psiloritis on Crete have begun on Monday. As announced by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, the site was vandalized.
Summer Workshop on Ancient Greek Graffiti
A week-long workshop focused on the Greek graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum will take place August 3-7, 2015 at the Center for Hellenic Studies, in Washington DC.
AURAL LIGHTHOUSES presents DANCING TUBES INTERVENTIONS
All nature, as it is in itself, consists of two things: there are bodies and there is void in which these bodies are and through which they move.
Lucretius, Der Rerum Natura, (c. 50 BCE), Book I, 418-421
Αegean and Cypriot trade in the 2nd millennium BC
Cyprus Seminar by Nikolas Papadimitriou (Museum of Cycladic Art).
Carl W. Blegen: Personal and Archaelogical Narratives
A biography that sets Blegen and his closest colleagues in the social and academic milieu that gave rise to the discipline of classical archaeology in Greece.
Human hunting weapons may not have caused the demise of the Neanderthals
Technological innovation may not have led to the colonization of Europe by anatomically modern humans, suggests new study.
Bizarre ‘platypus’ dinosaur discovered
Although closely related to T-Rex, a new dinosaur discovered is proving to be an evolutionary jigsaw puzzle, as it preferred to graze upon plants.
Knowledge, love and diplomacy
Lecture at the Netherlands Institute at Athens by Professor Dr Jan Bransen (Radboud University).
Digital meets Culture
The portal Digital Meets Culture calls for contributions, i.e. interesting news concerning new technologies applied to creativity and culture.
The Mystic Lettrist Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami
The 34th Annual Walton Lecture, organized by the ASCSA, is dedicated to Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami.
Egypt: Last Pharaohs. From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
The exhibition at the Kunsthalle Leoben (Austria) features over 200 objects, statues, reliefs, inscriptions and papyri.
Aid workers should read through archaeologists’ notebooks on building houses
Aid workers at natural disasters should consider long-term archaeological information about how locals constructed their homes in the past.
Woolly mammoth genomes mapped
An international team of researchers headed by a Greek geneticist have deciphered the complete genomes of two woolly mammoth specimens.
Archaeological Research in the Middle Haliakmon Valley (Part 3)
Presentation of the archaeological findings and data which outline the habitation in the Middle Haliakmon Valley from prehistoric times until the end of antiquity.
Rural and urban settlement in Sicily from Prehistory to Late Antiquity
Hosted by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (University of Edinburgh), this workshop will bring together scholars working on the development of urban and rural settlement in Sicily from Prehistory to Late Antiquity.
Associate Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History
The University of Exeter wishes to recruit an Associate Lecturer (Education and Scholarship) to support the delivery of Classics and Ancient History programmes, and in particular Latin language teaching.
Documenting sociopolitical changes in Pre- and Proto-Palatial Petras
In the context of the Minoan Seminar series Metaxia Tsipopoulou, head of Petras excavations, will talk about "Documenting sociopolitical changes in Pre- and Proto-Palatial Petras: the House Tomb cemetery".
Deciphering the demise of Neanderthals
Analysis of two baby teeth from northern Italy has shown that the innovative stone tools and ornaments of the Protoaurignacian culture were made by modern humans, and not Neanderthals.
Five-year old Neanderthal fossils in a hyena’s den
An interdisciplinary scientific team, coordinated by researchers in the University of Barcelona (UB), has discovered a mandible and a humerus of a five-year old Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) in the Cova del Gegant, in Sitges (Barcelona).
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri contained hangover remedy
The newly published volume of the Oxyrhynchus papyri contains several treatments from hangover to hemorrhoids and gangrene.
How the Mayas struggled against drought
As California enters the fourth year of a crippling drought, Peter Douglas of the state's Institute of Technology and his colleagues publish a study pinpointing the devastating effects of climate change on ancient Maya civilization...
Best sellers of HUP available online for free
Four best sellers from Harvard University Press are available online for free at the CHS website!
Music, language & identity in Modern Greece
Conference about the creation of national poetry and art music in Greece since the 19th century.
Meeting the gaze of Zeus
A recently published paper demonstrates that it was possible to have the Zeus temple at Olympia illuminated through the roof marble tiles.