More than 500 archaeological treasures of Macedonia will be presented for the first time to the Greek audience in a big exhibition to be inaugurated in spring at the Archaeological Museum of Pella.
Exhibition featuring ancient Greece through the drawings and writings of classical scholar Edward Dodwell (c. 1777–1832) and artist Simone Pomardi (1757–1830), made on their travels in 1805–1806.
From 10 to 17 August, 2013, more than 3,000 museum professionals around the world are expected in Rio de Janeiro for discussions around the theme "Museums (memory + creativity) = social change".
This conference aims to stimulate debate about ethnographic museums in the post-colonial period and to envision new ways of thinking and working in those museums in the future.
Between the years 2009-2012, researchers working at the Sedeinga archaeological site in Sudan succeeded in pinning down and unearthing a total of 35 ancient pyramids, clustered closely together and relatively small.
Stunning new exhibition brings to life the dramatic search for Britain’s last medieval king. Earlier this week, the University of Leicester confirmed that human remains buried at Greyfriars in Leicester city centre were indeed those of King Richard III.
Due to urgent restoration works at the Castelle Sforzesco, Michelangelo’s La Pietà Rondanini will be moved to a Milanese prison, the Carcere di San Vittore.
It is the academic conclusion of the University of Leicester that the individual exhumed at Grey Friars in August 2012 is indeed King Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England.
Pupils of the local elementary schools have visited the excavation conducted at the “Platania” site of Aghia Paraskevi in Lamia by the 14th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities since 2006.
Regarding the recent decision of the Central Archaeological Council not to declare the old museum as a preservable monument, the Association of Greek Archaeologists issued a press release expressing their concern about the old museum's fate.
A Malian source directly involved with the conservation of the Timbuktu manuscripts said that 95% of the total documents, whose number in the city and its surrounding region exceeds 300,000, were "safe and sound".