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War, art and political authority

War, art and political authority

Minoan Seminar series begins Friday 19 October, with a lecture given by Dr. Angelos Papadopoulos, entitled “War, art and political authority: a view on Neopalatial Crete”.
Robbery at Kunsthal Rotterdam

Robbery at Kunsthal Rotterdam

Paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and other famous modern artists have been stolen from a museum in Rotterdam.
Ancient City Aligned With Sun on King’s Birthday

Ancient City Aligned With Sun on King’s Birthday

The Egyptian city of Alexandria, home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, may have been built to align with the rising sun on the day of Alexander the Great's birth, a new study finds.
Symposium on Water, Wastewater, and Environment

Symposium on Water, Wastewater, and Environment

The "IWA Regional Symposium on Water, Wastewater, and Environment: Traditions and Culture", will be held in Patras, Greece, March 22-24, 2014.
UW-Madison archaeologists to mount new expedition to Troy

UW-Madison archaeologists to mount new expedition to Troy

Troy, the palatial city of prehistory, will be excavated anew beginning in 2013 by a cross-disciplinary team of archaeologists and other scientists
Do-it-yourself? Just don’t…

Do-it-yourself? Just don’t…

A Spanish grandmother's handiwork hit the headlines, but Ajax and rainstorms have contributed to other amateur disasters.
Cracking the code

Cracking the code

A conference in Cambridge, southeast England, will mark the 60th anniversary of the decipherment by Michael Ventris of Linear B.
Zeugma After the Flood

Zeugma After the Flood

New excavations continue to tell the story of an ancient city at the crossroads between east and west.
Archaeologists explore ancient market

Archaeologists explore ancient market

Archaeologists exploring the Agora (market) of ancient Paphos have found a small tablet with the name of an official in Greek and a plethora of other artefacts including a golden pendant, it was announced this week.
Mysterious Elk-Shaped Structure Discovered

Mysterious Elk-Shaped Structure Discovered

A huge geoglyph in the shape of an elk or deer discovered in Russia may predate Peru's famous Nazca Lines by thousands of years.
Ancient Mosaic Helps Biologists Piece Together Human Eating History

Ancient Mosaic Helps Biologists Piece Together Human Eating History

The Mediterranean mosaic fish that caught the interest of University of Salento biologist Paolo Guidetti and Stanford University biologist Fiorenza Micheli was the dusky grouper.
How The Greeks Can Get Their Marbles Back

How The Greeks Can Get Their Marbles Back

Australian lawyer Kathryn-Magnolia Feeley puts forward her own proposal for the return of the Parthenon marbles in a new book to be presented in Canberra this Sunday.
The Assyrian city of Tushhan

The Assyrian city of Tushhan

The ancient mound at Ziyaret Tepe in Diyarbakir province of southeastern Turkey, comprises two distinct areas: a high citadel and an extensive lower town. Since 1997 an international team of archaeologists have been excavating a site that was occupied nearly continuously for 2400 years from the Early Bronze Age (c. 3000 BCE).
Rare obsidian mirrors found in Çatalhöyük

Rare obsidian mirrors found in Çatalhöyük

Excavations at Çatalhöyük unearth funerary gift mirrors, a very rare finding in the ancient settlement. A technique called georadar is being used in the excavations and suggests the city was an egalitarian society.
Important finds at the ancient harbours of Zea and Mounichia

Important finds at the ancient harbours of Zea and Mounichia

Important finds came to light during 2010-2012 in the ancient harbours of Zea and Mounichia (modern Mikrolimano)
Louvre snubs Italian Request to Return Mona Lisa to Florence

Louvre snubs Italian Request to Return Mona Lisa to Florence

Paris’ Louvre museum has rebuffed a request to allow the Mona Lisa to be displayed in Italy next year.
Τhe exact spot where Caesar was stabbed to death

Τhe exact spot where Caesar was stabbed to death

A team from the National Research Council (CSIC) of Spain have located the exact spot where Caesar was stabbed to death.
The Kastro Kallithea Archaeological Project 2012

The Kastro Kallithea Archaeological Project 2012

The Kastro Kallithea Archaeological Project ran from May 28 to July 7, and continued the excavation of Building 10, a large Late Hellenistic mansion.
Photographing monuments

Photographing monuments

Photography workshop "Photographing monuments, Archaeological sites – Historic & Modern buildings" organized by Monumenta.
Work of the 7th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities for 2010-2011

Work of the 7th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities for 2010-2011

The work of the 7th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities in 2010-2011 was presented last Saturday.
National History Museum gets huge addition to its collections

National History Museum gets huge addition to its collections

Bulgaria’s National History Museum received a huge boost to its classical era and medieval collections on October 9, when it was handed 5000 items seized at the border with Serbia.
Rome bars tourists from eating at historical sites

Rome bars tourists from eating at historical sites

As of this week, anyone caught snacking around the Eternal City’s centuries-old monuments and archeological sites could find themselves landed with a fine of up to 500 euros ($650).
Papal Latin Academy to Breath Life into Dead Language

Papal Latin Academy to Breath Life into Dead Language

Pope Benedict XVI is planning to set up a Papal Latin Academy to promote the use of Latin within the Catholic Church and the secular world.
Two Roman shipwrecks off Turkey

Two Roman shipwrecks off Turkey

Two ancient Roman shipwrecks, complete with their cargo, have been discovered by Italian archaeologists off the coast of Turkey near the the ancient Roman city of Elaiussa Sebaste.
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