The Benaki Museum celebrates the life and work of Domenikos Theotokopoulos
On the occasion of the quatercentenary of Domenikos Theotokopoulos’ death, the Benaki Museum organizes two exhibitions and an international conference.
Athens, 180 years the capital of Greece
The exhibition includes more than a hundred paintings, engravings, and sculptures from the collections of the Municipal Gallery, inviting the public in a dialogue between present and past.
New single-step method for conserving waterlogged wooden artefacts
A team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with the Mary Rose Trust, have designed a new, more effective, method for preserving waterlogged historical wooden artefacts.
Assyrian Empire collapsed because of overpopulation and drought
Drought and overpopulation helped destroy Assyrian Empire, study says. Researchers see parallels with modern Syria and Iraq, and caution other regions also facing weather stresses.
History of Classical Antiquity
The international conference on the History of Classical Antiquity. Interdisciplinary Approaches will be held in Portugal, University of Coimbra, on 20-21 May 2015.
Cambridge University Press to publish Antichthon from 2015
Cambridge University Press announced that it will publish Antichthon, the journal of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS), from 2015.
The DNA of modern Europeans may date back 37,000 years
Scientific belief that today's Europeans come from three different sources is challenged, as the mapping of the DNA of a skeleton found in Russia suggests otherwise.
Late antique hagiography as literature
This colloquium is designed to bring together students and scholars working on a range of aspects of literary hagiography, to share insights, and to consider approaches for the future.
Ancient Luxury and the Roman Silver Treasure from Berthouville
The opulent cache is presented in its entirety for the first time outside Paris.
Derveni Papyrus: candidate for UNESCO Register 2014
The Derveni Papyrus, parts of which are exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, has been submitted by Greece as a candidate to be included in the Memory of the World Register in 2014.
ASMOSIA XI International Conference
The XI International Conference of the Association will be held in Split (Croatia) from May 18th to May 22nd, 2015. The deadline for submitting the abstracts is December 15th, 2014.
Romance between East and West
The conference Romance between East and West. New Approaches to Medieval Greek Fiction, organised by the Swedish Institute at Athens will take place on 27-29 November 2014.
Thermi, Lesbos 1936-2014
Olga Philaniotou (Honorary Ephor of Antiquities) will give a lecture entitled “Thermi, Lesbos 1936-2014” at the Swedish Institute in Athens.
New Zealand’s moa exterminated by an extremely low-density human population
A new study suggests that the flightless birds named moa were completely extinct by the time New Zealand's human population had grown to two and half thousand people at most.
A/C came standard on armored dinosaur models
New study shows that armor-plated dinosaurs (ankylosaurs) had the capacity to modify the temperature of the air they breathed in an exceptional way: by using their long, winding nasal passages as heat transfer devices.
Bronze Age burial in Buckinghamshire revealed by archaeologists
Bone fragments from the skeletons of two pre-pubescent children as well as pieces of Bronze Age pottery have been discovered by archaeologists in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
Different perspectives on Ancient Greek and Byzantine Cuisine (Part IV)
In the fourth part of this article series the project “The Ancient Greek table” is presented.
African diamond mine reveals dinosaur and large mammal tracks
Unexpectedly one of the largest diamond mines in Africa, Catoca in Angola, holds 118 million year old dinosaur, crocodile and large mammal tracks.
Taking a deeper look at ‘ancient wing’
Research presented at the recent Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting shows the importance of using new imaging technologies in reconstructing the color of Archaeopteryx, one of the most famous and important fossils species.
DTP consortium awards more than 50 scholarships
The Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) consortium, which consists of eight universities, among which the University of Bristol, will award more than 50 scholarships for students commencing doctoral research in 2015-16.
2000-year-old youth organization
In Roman Egypt, 14-year-old boys were enrolled in a youth organization in order to learn to be good citizens.
The 4th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World
The focus of AMPRAW 2014 is the notion of authenticity in the reception of the ancient world.
2015 Institute of Classical Studies Postdoctoral Research Conferences
The Institute of Classical Studies will be hosting two research and training conferences in February and May 2015.
Τhe Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great
The exhibition, featuring 522 artefacts on loan from Greek museums, illustrates the Greeks as figures reconstructed through the archaeological record.