The massive collection of 20-million-year-old amber found in the Dominican Republic more than 50 years ago yields fresh insights into ancient tropical insects and the world they inhabited.
Documents from Oxford University's Griffith Institute which shed light on the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb have gone on display to the public, many for the first time in their history.
Ritual violence was perpetrated on the corpses of the many warriors who fell in a major battle close to the Danish town of Skanderborg around the time Christ was born.
"Modern Greek for Postgraduates of Greek Archaeology and Early Career Scholars" is a two-week intensive course organized by the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens.
A ring of illicit antiquities trade has been busted by the Greek police in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Sports after a two-month investigation.
Excavations at an archaeological site at Kathu in the Northern Cape province of South Africa have produced tens of thousands of Earlier Stone Age artifacts, including hand axes and other tools.
The conference "Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication" will be held in November 2014 at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
The Hellenic Society and the Classical Association have generously provided grants to fund postgraduate student attendance at the conference Historical Consciousness and Historiography (3000 BC - AD 600).
The "Odalisque in Red Pants" by Henri Matisse, stolen more than a decade ago in Caracas and later recovered in an FBI sting, is on display again in Caracas.