Did Eurasia’s dominant East-West axis “turn the fortunes of history”?
New research shows that environmental barriers have influenced the spread of cultural innovations but do not consistently favour Eurasia.
Cultural Heritage in Crisis: People Oriented
This multi-year workshop centers on the people behind cultural heritage before, during, and after conflict.
Website Turin Papyrus Collection
The Museo Egizio in Turin has its own website for the Turin Papyrus Collection.
“Until death do us part”
The journal article explores the funerary deposition of animal remains and the nature of joint human-animal burials at Seminario Vescovile.
Unesco Releases Gaza Strip Damage Assessment Report
20 of the sites designated as of interest are located in Gaza City (Gaza Governorate), one in Jabalia and one in Rafah
Excavation at Kalavasos-Laroumena and Arkhangelos
The Kalavasos-Laroumena Archaeological project studies the Middle Cypriot Bronze Age (c. 2000-1650BC) in the Vasilikos Valley.
Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice
The volume explores what best practices in museum pedagogy look like when working with ancient Egyptian material culture.
The life of a Stone Age man has been mapped
Researchers are now able to state that “Vittrup Man” travelled across a wide geographical area during his lifetime.
Anthropologists’ research unveils Early Stone plaza in the Andes
Two University of Wyoming anthropology professors have discovered one of the earliest circular plazas in Andean South America.
Post-doc position in Greek epigraphy
The ERC project Pecunia “Private interests in public functions...” (Grant agreement 101088477) is opening a 2-year postdoctoral position.
Six 4-year, fully-funded PhD positions in Classics SNS PISA
The Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, encourages applications to its PhD programme in Classics.
Scandinavia’s first farmers slaughtered the hunter-gatherers
When the first farmers arrived in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations.
The tomb of Scribe Neferhotep has been opened to visitors
The tomb of Neferhotep, the scribe of Amun-Re, located in the Khokha area of Luxor’s West Bank, has been inaugurated.
Polish scientists discover unusual fish from 365 million years ago
A 365 million-year-old, over 2m long predatory armoured fish with an extremely elongated lower jaw found in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains.
A submerged hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea
Researchers have discovered a 970-metre-long megastructure of linear arranged stones submerged in the Bay of Mecklenburg.
Oldest known bead in the Americas discovered
Todd Surovell and his team of collaborators have discovered a tube-shaped bead made of bone that is about 12,940 years old.
The Cemetery of Meir, Volume VI. The Tombs of Senbi II and Wekhhotep II
The present volume is devoted to the tombs of Senbi II (B3) and Wekhhotep II (B4), and it forms the final volume in the Australian Centre for Egyptology’s series of reports on the cemetery of Meir.
Animal mummies: from beliefs to practice
The Annual Egyptological Colloquium will take place at the British Museum, London, on 31 October-1 November 2024.
Love and Hate in Ancient Times
Magical texts from Egypt in Coptic script and language are the focus of a research project at the University of Würzburg.
Painkiller or Pleasure?
First firm evidence that the Romans deliberately collected and used the poisonous seeds of the black henbane plant.
Peatland ‘time capsule’ reveals prehistoric woodland habitat
An area of buried prehistoric woodland, plant and insect remains, has been discovered on land cared for by the National Trust on Exmoor in Somerset.
Innovation in stone tool technology and modern human dispersals
A study led by researchers at the Nagoya University Museum in Japan may change how we understand the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens.
Aqua Paphia workshop
A Call for Papers for the workshop “Aqua Paphia: The Use and Meaning of Water in Hellenistic-Roman Nea Paphos and Beyond” has been issued.
DAI Athens: Lectures Februar-Juni 2024
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of its foundation, a series of lectures will be devoted to individual projects of the DAI Athens.