The Phaistos hills before the Palace: a contextual reappraisal
The first comprehensive account of all the deposits and structures uncovered over the past hundred years on the three hills of the Phaistos ridge.
Villae Rusticae. Family and Market-oriented Farms in Greece under Roman Rule
Proceedings of an international congress held at Patrai, 23-24 April 2010.
Revninge woman, a rare find
A rare female figurine amulet was discovered in Revninge. Her Viking Age dress shows remarkable details.
Earliest pair of trousers found in China
The earliest pair of trousers was found in western China. With straight-fitting legs and a wide crotch, the ancient wool trousers resemble modern riding pants.
The remarkable tale of Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest
Α remarkable tale of the first American citizen to enter China's Forbidden City and meet the emperor has been revealed through the study of artifacts and a 200-year-old journal.
Man’s best friend
a new interpretation of how European archaeological sites containing large numbers of dead mammoths and dwellings built with mammoth bones sites were formed.
CIMAM 2014 Travel Grant Program
CIMAM offers 20 grants to support the attendance of modern and contemporary art curators and museum or collection directors to CIMAM’s 2014 Annual Conference.
The conservation and aesthetic restoration of painted works of art
How far can we go in the conservation and restoration of an artefact? And to what degree does the artefact itself allow us to intervene?
New job opening at Massey University
The School of Humanities at Massey University is seeking to appoint an on-going (tenurable) Lecturer in Classical Studies (starting January 2015).
Through the eyes of George Seferis
The exhibition of photographs by George Seferis provides irrefutable testimony of the diligence with which he undertook all his activities.
CultureCase: Bridging the gap between academic research and its users
The Cultural Institute at King’s College London is happy to launch CultureCase: a new, free-to-use web resource that aims to put academic research to work in the cultural sector.
Vikings: Life and legend
This publication accompanies the exhibition Vikings: life and legend at the British Museum from 6 March to 22 June 2014.
Gods, myths and mortals traveling across the seas and through time
Commencing in 2014 and continuing for an unprecedented ten years, the Hellenic Museum of Melbourne plays host to a magnificent permanent collection from Greece’s most iconic cultural institution, the Benaki Museum.
Political terror and social decadence in Europe between the Wars
The exhibition "Solomon Nikritin - George Grosz: Political terror and social decadence in Europe between the Wars" is opening on June 4, 2014 in Thessaloniki.
The earliest dental prosthesis of Western Europe?
The discovery of an iron pin in place of an upper incisor tooth from a burial in northern France may represent one of the earliest examples of a dental implant in Western Europe.
A sudden switch ‘from heads to tails’
London’s international fish trade can be traced back 800 years to the medieval period, according to new research published today in the journal Antiquity.
7,000-year-old mummy found in Chile
A group of students have discovered a 7,000-year-old mummy believed to belong to the Chinchorro culture. The Chinchorro mummies are the oldest examples of artificially mummified human remains.
Old and New Powers: Boiotian International Relations from Philip II to Augustus
Fully funded PhD position in Ancient History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
Phaistos and the Western Mesara plain in the Protopalatial period
Next Minoan Seminar to be presented on Friday, May 20, by Ilaria Caloi (Université Catholique de Louvain).
In the shadow of Leicester Cathedral
The University of Leicester has retained the right to proceed with the reinterment of King Richard III in Leicester.
The Phoenician Archive of Idalion
On June 2, 2014, Dr Maria Hadjicosti and Dr Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo will give a lecture on "The Phoenician Archive of Idalion."
Aigeiros lecture series
Lectures proposals for the months of October to December 2014 should be submitted by July 15, 2014.
Violence as a means to structure the epic narrative
The lecture given by Evelyn Syré aims at interpreting the revenant victims of illegitimate violence in Silius Italicus' Punica as a deliberate intratextual means to structure the epic narrative.