News from Tel Kabri
An extended storage area full with pottery jars as well as more painted plaster fragments discovered.
Sunoikisis Undergraduate Research Symposium, Fall 2013
The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C. invites students to present papers on their research on ancient Greece and Rome, as well as the classical tradition.
The Bronze Age: The Minoans and the Mycenaeans
Together with the Sunoikisis consortium, the Center for Hellenic Studies will offer a travel study program in Greece January 6-26, 2014.
The Mycenaean Acropolis of Midea
History and description of the Acropolis of Midea, on the occasion of an event to be held tomorrow at this significant archaeological site.
Lords of the Rings
Four Bronze Age gold rings were recently found near the site where six similar rings were found in 2009.
Cultural Heritage practices: issues of archaeological conservation and site preservation
Running from the 4th to the 6th of November, 2013 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Contact Dr Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou ([email protected]) in order to secure a place.
Language and tool-making skills evolved at same time
Research by the University of Liverpool has found that the same brain activity is used for language production and making complex tools, supporting the theory that they evolved at the same time.
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites with Mosaics
Deadline for submission of the application is September 30, 2013.
Luxury Textiles and Extraction of Copper from Cypriot Bronze Age City
The University of Gothenburg has issued a press release about the finds of the archaeological expedition at the Bronze Age city Hala Sultan Tekke.
C. Bronk Ramsey, Andrew J. Shortland (eds.), Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of Ancient Egypt
This volume presents the findings of a major international project on the application of radiocarbon dating to the Egyptian historical chronology.
Earliest Bronze Age sheepskin is found in the Highlands
Archaeologists are claiming a highly significant discovery in the Highlands in the form of a 4000-year-old sheepskin that is believed to be the earliest surviving example in Britain.
African Archaeology without Frontiers
The 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies and the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists will be hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa from 14-18 July 2014.
Τemporary exhibition “Serbian Μedieval Art” is prolonged
The exhibition "Serbian Μedieval Art" organized by the Byzantine and Christian Museum in collaboration with the National Museum of Belgrade is prolonged until September 15th 2013.
The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange, symposium at the EAA Conference 2014
Building upon recent research investigating the significance of “nonnormative” human burials within archaeological contexts, there is a proposal for a session on deviant burials to be held during the upcoming EAA Annual Conference (Istanbul 2014).
Mosaic-house revealed in ancient Tripolis
Ongoing excavations in Denizli’s ancient Lycian city of Tripolis have revealed a house featuring a large collection of colorful mosaics with floral and geometric patterns.
Gallery Talks
See the new program of Gallery Talks at the Acropolis Museum for the month of September.
Shunga: Sex and pleasure in Japanese art
These works, produced between 1600 and 1900, have continued to influence manga, anime and Japanese tattoo art.
First millennium AD sweater revealed
First millennium AD sweater, discovered two years ago in an hunting area on the Norwegian Lendbreen glacier at 6,560 feet above the sea level, has been detailed in the current issue of the journal "Antiquity".
Everybody Can Be Maecenas
Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 3, the Louvre Museum will launch an appeal for donations for the conservation of the famous statue.
Ancient Libyan necropolis threatened by real estate speculators
Even though the city is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, local farmers have laid claim to certain parts of the necropolis and recently destroyed a section with the help of excavators in order to make way for new houses.
2,000-Year-Old Bear Ring Found In Siberia, Used In Ancient ‘Bear Cult’
The ring is tiny in diameter so even a young girl, let alone a woman, cannot wear it. We concluded that it was used in a ritual connected with a bear cult and was put on the bear claw.