As Ireland marks the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf new research argues that our main source for what happened may be more literary history than historical fact.
Αtlas featuring spy-satellite photos taken between 1960 and 1972 in the framework of the CORONA Project, which aimed to shield the US from Soviet nuclear attacks.
A conference to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Marginalia: the journal of the Cambridge Medieval Reading Group Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
Basel Egyptologists reveal five-chamber tomb containing mummified remains of Egyptian and foreign ladies as well as royal sons and daughters of Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III.
The 33rd Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Preveza and Arta and the Archaeological Museum of Arta present the exhibit of the month, the head of a male figurine probably depicting Apollo.
Portable artefacts of significant artistic importance have been revealed in the residential quarters of the ancient city of Akrai, in the in the south-eastern part of Sicily,
The conference will be an assembly for discussions on how museums create bonds between visitors, generations and world-wide cultures through use of their collections.
Lecture by Dr Michael Boyd (Senior Research Associate; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research) in the framework of the Mycenaean Seminar series.
This is the first detailed and comprehensive study of the shipshed complexes which housed the great navies of the Greco-Roman world, including Athens and Carthage.
Exhibition focusing on the influence of el Greco in contemporary art creation. It will showcase the work of twelve artists in which the presence of El Greco is clear.
Experts scanning a 6th c. AD Greco-Roman mummy of a woman were found confronted with a number of questions as they found that her brain was still preserved within the head, while a ritualistic object was found over her sternum and abdomen.
The library and archives will be part of the Israel Antiquities Authority's Schottenstein National Campus for the Archeology of Israel, currently under construction in Jerusalem.
The Talisman: A Critical Genealogy is part of the College Art Association 103rd Annual Conference, which will take place on February 11-14, 2015 in New York City.
Egyptologist claims that beyond the general assumption that the kings of ancient Egypt and their kin could read and write, there is also actual material evidence to prove it.
Archaeologists now plan to clean up, restore and reopen the Mausoleum while the city is to spend €12m on creating a pedestrian's area to facilitate the access of visitors.
Medieval Materiality: A Conference on the Life and Afterlife of Things will take place on 23-25 October 2014 at the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA).