Rethinking Museums and Sustainable Development for the Global Profession
"Rethinking Museums and Sustainable Development for the Global Profession. Postcolonial Museology, Appropriate Capacity Building and Regional Engagement" is the title of the ICOM-ICTOP's annual conference
Road of the slaves. Historical and memorial sites
"Road of the slaves. Historical and memorial sites" is the topic of the ICMAH Committee's annual Conference.
Global financial crisis: Culture’s Achilles heel
A new Greek initiative appealing to UNESCO for the protection of Greek cultural heritage through its website www.greekcultureprotection.com.
Placing Halasarna and Kos in its real context, the broader Aegean…
Mercourios Georgiadis presents a material sequence based on stylistic analysis and develops a diachronic understanding of settlement dynamics within a wider regional context.
Poverty Point added to UNESCO World Heritage List
The monumental earthworks at Poverty Point are one of seven sites from around the world that have been added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Grinding Away at History Using ‘Forensic’ Paleontology and Archaeology
The Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) announces an unusual paper in their journal PALAIOS that combines ‘forensic’ paleontology and archaeology to identify origins of the millstones commonly used in the 1800’s.
Leicestershire’s finest Iron Age hillfort
The archaeological team excavating Burrough Hill invites visitors to share their discoveries at a public Open Day on Sunday June 29th.
Evolution depends on rare chance events
Chance events may profoundly shape history, new study reveals.
Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples. Villas and Landscapes (c. 100 BCE – 79 CE)
This study explores Roman luxury villa architecture and the Roman luxury villa lifestyle.
Ancient Mining Landscapes
International Symposium to take place in Boticas (Vila Real, Portugal) on July 25-27, 2014.
Haïti requests UNESCO to send experts to examine shipwreck off its coast
UNESCO will provide the technical assistance requested by the government of Haiti and send a mission to the site of the wreck, which may be that of the Santa Maria, the flagship of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to America.
The “cOld Ice” Project
"cOld Ice" is a new project initiated in Switzerland, which asks alpinists to keep their eyes open for ancient discoveries.
Ancient Christian Literature and Christian Apocrypha
An International Symposium on Christian Apocryphical Literature entitled "Ancient Christian Literature and Christian Apocrypha," will be held in Thessaloniki, on 26-29 June 2014.
The Sima de los Huesos hominin
The Sima de los Huesos hominin, previously thought to belong to an ancient human species known as Homo heidelbergensis, is now reported to be an early member of the Neanderthal lineage.
Nazi-looted antiquities return to Greece
Antiquities looted by Nazis will soon be repatriated to Greece, the culture ministry announced on Thursday.
World Heritage List reaches 1000 sites with inscription of Okavango Delta in Botswana
UNESCO's World Heritage List reached 1000 sites with the inscription of Okavango Delta in Botswana.
Associate Professorship of Byzantine Archaeology and Visual Culture
The University of Oxford proposes to appoint an Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology and Visual Culture.
The inscribed stele of Eleusis and quality control in antiquity
The study of the inscribed stele's text led to a very interesting conclusion: this inscription is the most ancient example of its kind with strict specifications for the manufacture of bronze fittings known as empolia and poloi.
Bronze Age necropolis at Marigny-le-Châtel
Bronze Age burial monuments and tombs were revealed during rescue excavations conducted by Inrap archaeologists in April 2014 at the commune of Marigny-le-Châtel.
Who’s hiding behind Picasso’s “Blue Room”?
A hidden portrait beneath one of Pablo Picasso's first masterpieces, "The Blue Room" (1901), was revealed by scientists and art experts of The Phillips Collection (Washington DC). Now conservators are trying to identify the mystery man.
Italy seeks funds to save Nero’s Domus Aurea
Italy appealed Wednesday for sponsors to help restore Emperor Nero's Golden House, the Domus Area, in the heart of Rome, saying 31 million euros ($42 million) was needed to repair the majestic complex.
Shell beads from the Mediterranean in Bronze Age Britain?
Non-destructive methods of analysing organic material used to make jewellery beads in Bronze Age Britain showed Britons "bough locally".
Nero coin found at Vindolanda
A gold coin bearing the image of Nero is the first of its kind ever discovered so far in Vindolanda. Its date compared to the layer it was found hints that it was in circulation for more than 300 years.
Doctoral Scholarship at Erfurt on Ancient Sanctuaries
The Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt in cooperation with the Humboldt Research Project “Sanctuaries” and the ERC-funded Research Group „Lived Ancient Religion” offers at the earliest possible date Doctoral scholarships.