Veterans and personnel uncover Iron Age treasures at RAF airfield
Parts of a Celtic chariot, thought to be around 2,000 years old, were discovered underneath the airfield at RAF Valley in Anglesey.
Archaeologists find ‘lost’ site depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
Archaeologists have found evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.
Web Scraping and Text Analysis in R
Web scraping can automate the extraction of scientific data from public databases, scientific publications, and organisational websites.
Open again: The Vasari Corridor
Visitors enter through the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, walk through the core of the Ponte Vecchio, and exit at the Boboli Gardens.
Design for New Modern and Contemporary Art Wing of The Met
Redesigned wing will create world-class home for The Met’s diverse collection of 20th- and 21st-century art.
Stunning Corinthian helmet in auction
The Corinthian hoplite bronze helmet is about to be sold at an estimated price of £60,000-£90,000 by Apollo Art Auctions house.
Queerness beyond identity
This panel invites methodological interventions, especially in conversation with queer and trans studies, to the treatment of content claimed or marginalized by Classics.
Revealing the menu of 5000 years ago
Up to now, a mystery has remained regarding the preferred plant food ingredients of the so-called Funnel Beaker Culture.
Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World – SA4AW
This conference explores the contribution of semantic annotation, hybrid AI, deep learning, and knowledge graphs to ancient world studies.
Putting Objects with Gods/Putting Gods with Objects
This panel of the 2025 Celtic Conference explores the multifaceted nature of divine attributes in ancient Mediterranean religions.
Markos Kampanis. Odyssey
The exhibition is a painterly journey, shorter than the Homeric one, based on a parallel imaginary geography conceived by the artist.
Magnificent Scandinavian helmet found in Lejre
The exceptional gold-plated bronze helmet fragment was uncovered by two metal detectorists near Lejre (Denmark) during the spring of 2024.
Lavish bath complex came to light in Pompeii
One of the largest private bath complexes ever to be discovered, adjoining a banqueting room, has been brought to light during the excavations of Regio IX in Pompeii.
Funded MA and PhD Opportunities at Central European University
The Department of Historical Studies at Central European University announces its call for applications for the 2025/2026 academic year.
Stolen Fragments
Mazza's investigation asks what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it.
Ptolemaic Statue Head Found in Taposiris Magna’s 7th c. City
The marble head was found in the ruins of a house which was built about 700 years later, during the Byzantine-Islamic transitional period.
EAA 2025 session on Ancient Egyptian Settlements
Contributions can now be submitted to session #208 "Bridging the Gaps: Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Egyptian Settlements".
Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women
A new study by Bournemouth University has found evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain.
Discoveries relating to industrial-scale Roman pottery production
Archaeological discoveries from a Roman pottery production site which formed part of a major industry around Poole Harbour.
East Asia meets Europe in Lower Austria
Ancient genomes show integration of genetically different groups to the same early medieval Avar society in the Vienna Basin, Austria.
Volcanic eruption caused Neolithic sacrifice of unique “sun stones”
4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs.
The hidden complexity of ancient Peruvian tattoos
This discovery suggests that tattoos could have been status symbols or spiritual emblems in ancient societies.
World’s oldest 3D map discovered
Palaeolithic people had “worked” the sandstone in a way that mirrored the female form and opened fractures for infiltrating water.
A new chapter to Indonesia’s layered human history
First genomic evidence of early migration from New Guinea into into the Wallacea, e.g. Timor-Leste and hundreds of Indonesian islands.