When age matters
The precise dating of ancient charcoal found near a skull is helping reveal a unique period in prehistory.
StAGE 2015
Registration for the postgraduate conference ‘StAGE 2015: Training and Research in Material Culture Related to the Ancient World’ is now open.
Yılan Mermer: The Marble of the Snake
The Marble of the Snake is a neglected monument in Thessaloniki. Its history takes us back to Constantine the Great and the tradition of raising honorary statues in public spaces.
Lady in lead
A mysterious lead coffin containing the skeleton of an elderly woman was found close to the site of Richard III's hastily dug grave at the Grey Friars friary.
The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
This book shows how our coevolution with wolves contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals and further transformed us through the process of domesticating dogs.
What was a day at school like for Julius Caesar?
Priceless insight into daily life in the Roman Empire are revealed by the first English translation of Europe's most ancient children's book.
More than 200 bodies found in communal graves beneath Paris supermarket
More than 200 bodies have been found by INRAP archaeologists in eight mass graves beneath a central Paris supermarket. The bodies were laid out in neat rows.
Surprise cultural connections between Britain and Europe 8,000 years ago
The ancient British were not cut off from Europeans on an isolated island 8,000 years ago as previously thought, new research suggests.
Museums and Museology in modern society. New challenges, new relationships (Part 5)
Τhe concept of museums and collections as ideological fields of reference in the work of important artists of the so called Institutional Critique.
Outrage over footage of IS militants smashing ancient Iraq statues
UNESCO expresses outrage over terrorist attack against Mosul Museum.
Heroic Offerings
The first in-depth study of the terracotta plaques from the sanctuary of Agamemnon and Kassandra at Amyklai.
Secret chamber discovered at Sidon temple
A delegation from the British Museum discovered a concealed chamber at the Sidon’s Frères archaeological site.
New light shed at Homo Sapiens stay in Arabia through tool evolution
A pair of American archaeologists claim that through tool evolution they managed to track the route humans took moving from Africa across Eurasia about 50,000 to 60,000 years ago.
Kolonna on Aegina. A Central Aegean Hub
Αn overview of research and excavations conducted at the site covering roughly a 600-year span from the later Early Bonze II period to the beginning of the Late Bronze Age.
Feasting on the Enemy: Horror in the Theban Epics
About the hero Tydeus forfeiting immortality by gnawing on the head of a dying enemy...
Athens: from ancient polis to postmodern metropolis
A three-week long, intensive study abroad programme combining at least 40 hours of morning on-site classes with afternoon specialist lectures and weekend fieldtrips.
Early Christian Cyprus
Early Christian Cyprus is the topic of the next Cyprus Seminar, organized by the Museum of Cycladic Art, which will be presented by Dr Fryni Hadjichristofi (Archaeological Officer, Department of Antiquities Cyprus).
Pharaoh Senebkay was brutally killed in a battle far away from home
After examining the skeletal remains of Senebkay, discovered in Abydos last year, a team from the University of Pennsylvania led by Josef Wegner assumed that the king died in battle.
3,000-year-old divination shrines discovered in Armenia
Archaeologists have discovered three divination shrines, about 3,300 years old, within a hilltop fortress at Gegharot, Armenia.
15th century manuscript was repainted and ‘re-gifted’ as wedding gift
Stella Panayotova (Fitzwilliam Museum) leads a project that is using advanced imaging techniques to examine medieval manuscripts.
The Theban Epics
Malcolm Davies provides the first full commentary on all four Theban epics’ fragments.
The Prince and the Artist: Bronze Age Greece through a minuscule masterpiece
On this minuscule amethyst disc-shaped seal (measuring 9mm in diameter), a gifted and experienced Minoan craftsman has depicted a lively, exquisitely detailed and unprecedentedly artistic representation of a male head in profile.
Greek and Roman Musical Studies
Greek and Roman Musical Studies is a new journal, the first specialist periodical in the fields of ancient Greek and Roman music.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classics in Israel
The Joint M.A. Program in Classics in Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University, Ben Gurion University and Haifa University sponsored by the Yad Hanadiv Foundation invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classics 2015-2016.