Designer of the Bayeux Tapestry identified
New research has identified the man who designed the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the most important artworks of the Middle Ages. Historian Howard B. Clarke believes that this was Scolland, the abbot of St.Augustine’s monastery in Canterbury, and that it was made around the year 1075.
British Rock Art Group
The School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Edinburgh University will host the 2014 annual conference of the British Rock Art Group, which will take place on Saturday 3rd May 2014.
Reading ancient climate from plankton shells
Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea shells, new research shows.
Archaeologists and historians to investigate network of Roman ports
The University of Southampton has been awarded €2.49 million (£2.1 million) by the European Research Council to study a large network of Roman ports stretching from Turkey in the east, to Spain in the west.
Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt
How did ancient Egypt shape the development of Greek culture? What was the impact of the encounter with Greece on Egypt? How did these completely different cultures interact?
Cleaning Up Ancient Human DNA
New method for purifying ancient human DNA samples will “substantially increase the number of samples amenable to whole genome sequencing”.
Zahi Hawass: National Geographic’s Baksheesh Boy?
Any US investigation will be focused less on any possible wrongdoing by him but rather by National Geographic with particular reference to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which forbids US entities from paying bribes to foreign government to gain an unfair competitive advantage.
Marmaray: the modern Silk Road
The railway tunnel underneath the Bosphorus Strait has been opened in Turkey yesterday, on the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey.
Barrington Atlas Coming to iPads
Princeton University Press announces the launch of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World App in the iTunes store on November 21, 2013.
Buddhist carvings in Pakistan said to need protection
Buddhist rock carvings in the Swat district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are fading and they need preservation by the province's Archaeology Department to protect them from vandalism.
Relations between Cyprus and China in the field of Culture strengthened
The Minister of Education and Culture Mr Kyriakos Kenevezos, had a meeting yesterday with the Vice-Minister of Culture and Director General of State Administration for Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China, Mr Li Xiaojie.
An app that will change museums?
Visitors using the app can digitally scan, restore, acquire and play with artefacts, all with one click through their smartphone or tablet.
Italians discover Gate to Hell, with Cerberus guarding
The Plutonium was found it thanks to the bodies of some small birds, who appeared to have dropped dead at the mouth of a cave that was spewing deadly carbon dioxide fumes.
October 29, the “Cyrus the Great Day”
The Declaration of Cyrus the Great, emphasizes on the removal of all racial, national discrimination and slavery, bestowing to the people, freedom to choose their places of residence, faith and religion and giving prominence to the perpetual peace amongst the nations.
J. Pascual / M.-F. Papakonstantinou, Topography and History of Ancient Epicnemidian Locris
The book gives a full picture of a extensive area of Greece known as Epicnemidian Locris.
The Crossroads II, or There and Back Again
The second international conference is dedicated to the study of relations between Egypt, the Aegean, the Levant and the Sudan in the Second and First Millennia B.C.E.
Ancient Magician’s Curse Tablet Discovered in Jerusalem
The text is written in Greek and, in it a woman named Kyrilla invokes the names of six gods to cast a curse on a man named Iennys, apparently over a legal case.
An Erotic Epigram on a Ostracon from Rhodes
Scholars Anastasia Dreliosi-Irakleidou and Nikos Litinas (University of Crete) studied the epigram and published their finds in the current issue (10-12) of Eulimene periodical.
The Sound of Music Greek Style
Scholars are about to reconstruct the music which used to accompany various ancient Greek works of litterature.
Climate Crisis Ruined Ancient Empires?
f the effects of “global warming” today are going to be anything like those of the 3,200-year-old drought and cold wave that, according to research in the Sea of Galilee existed in the Middle East, watch out.
The veneration of Saint Mamas in the Mediterranean
The Museum of Byzantine Culture in collaboration with the Holy Bishopric and the Municipality of Morphou, Cyprus, organizes the temporary exhibition “The veneration of Saint Mamas in the Mediterranean: A traveler border defender saint”.
The Ancient Theatre of Sparta in Way of Restoration
Since it is considered to be of immense importance, the recent recommendation of the Central Archaeological Council, gave the green light for the study of its rehabilitation.
Replica of King Tut’s Tomb to Open
Within the replica visitors will be able to examine parts of the tomb they were not allowed to in the original, while gaining info on the tomb's protection.
Protecting North America’s Oldest Structures
A group that includes representatives from Western State Colorado University, archeologists, local TV and radio stations and telecommunications companies reached an agreement this month to preserve the archeological site of Tenderfoot Mountain while also preserving access for organizations that maintain equipment on the site.