Straight from the field to the market, the kitchen, the table…
Lecture series at the Sismanoglio Megaro, Istanbul, Turkey.
An antique apiary on Agathonisi
In the northern part of the Agathonisi island, at the rocky area of Kastraki, an apiary was in use from the late 4th c. BC until the mid 2nd century AD...
The Caryatids on their pedestals
The marble pedestals on which the two Amphipolis Caryatids stand were fully revealed.
Ancient human genome from southern Africa shows light on our origins
The skeleton of a man who lived 2,330 years ago in the southernmost tip of Africa tells us about ourselves as humans, and throws some light on our earliest common genetic ancestry.
The origins of Greece. Between dreams and archaeology
Unpublished archive documents and contemporary photographs from the collections of many French museums that illustrate how the ancient Greek past was interpreted during the Belle Epoque period.
Heaven and Earth in Chicago
Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections opened last Saturday at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Return of the Marbles
International conference focuses on the widely discussed subject of the Parthenon sculptures' repatriation to Greece.
Beekeeping in Byzantine culture
S. Germanidou will address the subject of Beekeeping in Byzantine culture in the framework of the Symposium "Beekeeping in the Mediterrenean from antiquity until today".
Exeter archaeologist ensures thousands of Roman coins in Devon are recorded
The ‘Seaton Down Hoard’ is recognised as being one of the largest and best preserved 4th century collections to have ever been found in Britain.
Meet Hadrian: The Roamin’ Emperor
Can you piece together strands of evidence to work out what motivated Hadrian to travel so extensively?
38th Annual ICOFOM Symposium
As prelude to presentation and/or publication in the ICOFOM Study Series 45, ICOFOM opens the call for the submission of abstracts on the topic of the next annual Symposium "Museology exploring the concept of MLA (Museums-Libraries-Archives)".
Different perspectives on Ancient Greek and Byzantine cuisine (Part 1)
In this first article of the series the nutritional practices of the Ancient Greeks are described.
A different beekeeping symposium in the Cyclades
A symposium aiming to present the findings related to the history of beekeeping in Greece and the Mediterranean.
Perspectives on Language and Culture in Early Christianity
Interdisciplinary conference about the general issue of “Language and Culture in Early Christianity” approached from a context-oriented and a content-oriented perspective.
Innovative Stone Age tools were not African invention
Levallois technology occurred independently within different populations and wasn't invented in Africa.
New evidence of ancient multicellular life sets evolutionary timeline back 60 million years
New evidence in the fossil record that complex multicellularity appeared in living things nearly 60 million years before skeletal animals appeared during the Cambrian Explosion.
Insights into human paternal and maternal demographic histories
Mark Stoneking of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and his team compared maternal and paternal histories and came to interesting conclusions.
Temple of Mithras
This September marks sixty years since the discovery of the Roman Temple of Mithras. The MOLA and Bloomberg undertake an Oral History Project to celebrate this historic event.
Digital Archaeology changes exploration of the past
An archaeologist in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is exploring the past using the tools of the 21st century.
Mrs Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt
An independent woman of ancient Egypt brought to life from obscure papyrus records...
Making sense of nonsense inscriptions associated with Amazons and Scythians
By deciphering “nonsense” inscriptions on Greek vases dating from 550 BC to 450 BC, the authors of a new study revealed the hidden names of Amazons.
A Future for our Past
The aim of the project is the creation of a new Digital Library which develops and evolves the impressive six volume corpus ‘Ancient Cypriot Literature’.
“Campfire tales were the original social media”
A University of Utah study of nighttime gatherings around fires by the Kalahari Bushmen suggests that human cultural development was advanced when human ancestors started telling stories around the fire at night.
ΑΙΓΕΙΡΟΣ lecture series
Call for Papers for the ΑΙΓΕΙΡΟΣ lecture series at the German Archaeological Institute Athens.