Classics: Mellon Bridge Assistant Professorship
The School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University seeks a scholar who studies the contact between the Greco-Roman and Islamic traditions during any period through the Renaissance for a tenure-track Mellon Bridge Assistant Professorship.
Gold necklace found in Celtic hoard
Experts performing conservation works on the world's largest Celtic hoard of coins, dating to about 70BC, came across a gold necklace, probably from the Baiocasses, a tribe from Normandy.
Biggest ancient stone block in Baalbek/ancient Heliopolis
The monolithic block in the stone quarry of Baalbek measures 19,60x6x5,5m. It weighs ca 1,650 tons...
Cultural Heritage: Recalibrating Relationships
Bringing Cultural Heritage and people together in a changing Europe and finding new ways of engaging with heritage in a digital world...
Fish, shellfish and fishermen in Prehistoric Aegean
The roots of the fishing traditions of the Aegean, which are still found along its coasts, are to be found in prehistoric times, from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age.
Ancient Egyptian spell book deciphered
A 1300 year-old ancient Egyptian handbook including magic spells and invocations has been deciphered by Australian scientists. The spell book is a parchment codex including spells on love matters, exorcising evil spirits and treating infections. It is written in Coptic and scientists believe that it was used by ritual practitioners.
Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World
New series of translations with commentaries of works of ancient and medieval science to be published by Routledge.
Geologists discover ancient buried canyon in South Tibet
The discovery of an ancient buried canyon in Tibet rules out a popular model used to explain how the massive and picturesque gorges of the Himalaya became so steep, so fast.
Amphipolis: Slowing down the pace
After three months of intensive excavations with the dazzling array of finds, the pace on Kasta Hill is slowing down.
Sunken parts of the Stadion District found in the waters off Delos
Recent surveys conducted in the waters off Delos show sunken settlement remains in the Stadion District, where commercial and manufacturing activities took place.
What’s new in Roman Greece
The Roman Seminar, in cooperation with the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, will organize the International Conference “What’s New In Roman Greece”.
Attic funerary stele found at Kerameikos
During the ongoing excavations by the German Archaeological Institute, Athens at Kerameikos the fragment of a Classical period funerary stele was found.
A Game of Thrones: Succession in the Ancient World
This colloquium seeks to bring together treatments of succession, broadly conceived, from a variety of disciplines and areas of study.
Promoting and elevating the activities of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi
Project aiming to upgrade the digital services offered by the European Cultural Centre of Delphi to citizens by utilizing the philosophy and technology of Web 2.0.
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, c. 300-c.1500
"Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, c. 300-c.1500" is the subject of The Oxford University Byzantine Society’s XVII International Graduate Conference which will take place on 27th February – 28th February 2015, at the University of Oxford.
Mycenaean era artefacts unearthed in south-western Turkey
Mycenaean artefacts unearthed in south-western Turkey will enrich the collection of the Bodrum Underwater Archaeology Museum.
Good news from the Swedish Institutes of Athens, Rome and Istanbul
Yesterday the Swedish government officially announced that they will not cut the funding of the Swedish Institutes.
Climate change was not to blame for the collapse of the Bronze Age
Scientists will have to find alternative explanations for a huge population collapse in Europe at the end of the Bronze Age as researchers prove definitively that climate change - commonly assumed to be responsible - could not have been the culprit.
CHI Visiting Fellows Program at Penn State
The Center for Humanities and Information (CHI) at The Pennsylvania State University seeks up to three visiting fellows for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 academic years.
Kontopigado
In the framework of the Mycenaean Seminar series, Konstandina Kaza-Papageorgiou (Honorary Director of Archaeological Sites) will present excavation results at the site of Kontopigado.
The wine magazine (Nestor’s cellar)
The palace of the Mycenaean king of Pylos is famous world-wide. The remains of the building correspond to one of the most significant chapters of Greek archaeology.
2014 Archaeological Excavations at Nea Paphos: Results
Archaeological investigations focused on the cavea of the Hellenistic-Roman theatre and on the Roman road.
Greco-Roman Cities at the Crossroads of Cultures
The International Interdisciplinary Conference "Greco-Roman Cities at the Crossroads of Cultures – the 20th Anniversary of Polish-Egyptian Conservation Mission Marina El-Alamein" will take place in Wrocław, on 17-18 September 2015.
Archaeologists study Thracian burial ground in Romania
Archaeologists in Romania have completed the sixth excavational season at the vast necropolis in Teliţa-Celic Dere. The necropolis dates back to the 1st millennium BC and consists of nearly 100 mounds.