Nimrud: The Queens’ Tombs
The present volume is a new version of the finding of the tombs and their contents, giving much additional information.
The race to preserve the bricks of a Tudor warship
Researchers used the UK’s national synchrotron to examine bricks used in the galley of the Mary Rose warship in two brick ovens to cook warm food for more than 400 sailors and soldiers.
Αppearance of inhabitants of Upper Lusatia from 400 years ago recreated
The bust of an elderly man and digital images of a young woman and a young man are the results of research conducted on human skulls.
Uffizi Gallery: the most visited museum in 2021
After years of innovation under the German-born director Eike Schmidt, during which it has even expanded into contemporary art.
Amphora workshop uncovered in Tabba Matouh
Archaeologists have uncovered an amphora workshop at Tabba Matouh in west Alexandria, Egypt.
Study sheds new light on the origin of civilisation
The research sheds new light on the mechanisms by which the adoption of agriculture led to complex hierarchies and states.
Two of Darwin’s notebooks returned to Cambridge
They had been missing for more than 20 years from the University of Cambridge in Britain and believed to have been stolen.
Jewish burial inscriptions discovered in the former P. Melas army camp
The Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki was destroyed in December 1942 by the then occupying Germans.
Chart the Seas of Ancient Greece in Melbourne exhibition
Open Horizons: Ancient Greek Journeys and Connections is co-created and presented in collaboration with the NAM (Athens).
Contemporary art exhibition at the Amathous archaeological site
The exhibition "Happy Few" by Andreas Kalli opens at the Archaeological Site of Amathous, on Saturday the 16th of April 2022 at 19:30.
In Honor of Prof. Liritzis Ioannis
The volume honors Prof. I. Liritzis on the occasion of his retirement from the University of the Aegean and his major support of Egyptology.
Two-year postdocs at The University of Texas at Austin
The Department of Classics at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for two two-year postdoctoral positions beginning August 2022.
Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in the reception of the Ancient World
A Call for Papers has been announced for the Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in the reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW) 2022.
Ukraine: 53 cultural sites have been damaged
Among these are 29 religious sites, 16 historic buildings, four museums and four monuments, for which Unesco was able to confirm the damage through satellite photographs.
Position in Ancient Greek
The Department of Classics at the University of Heidelberg invites applications for a full-time post in Ancient Greek.
Μ. Cosmopoulos talks about the excavation at Iklaina
"The excavations at Iklaina shed new light on the mechanisms that led to the creation of the state as an institution", he said to the Athens and Macedonia News Agency.
Research team sheds light on Roman financial crisis
New scientific analysis of the composition of Roman denarii has brought fresh understanding to a financial crisis briefly mentioned by the Roman statesman and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero.
How did visitors experience the domestic space in Pompeii?
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used virtual reality and 3D eye-tracking technology to examine what drew the attention of the visitors when entering the stunning environment of an ancient Roman house.
4000 year old boat salvaged near the ancient city of Uruk
An ancient boat, made of bitumen and not preserved organic material, was excavated during the spring 2022 campaign of the Iraqi German Mission.
Direct cosmogenic nuclide dating of Olduvai Lithic Industry
First attempt to apply cosmogenic nuclide isochron-burial dating directly to Olduvai Gorge lithic tools dates the chronology of Bed II.
US Returns Two Antiquities to the People of Libya
Last week Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the return of two antiquities collectively valued at more than $500,000 to the people of Libya.
The largest mother spider by Louise Bourgeois at the SNFCC
Louise Bourgeois’s giant spider Maman had to travel more than 2.5 thousand kilometers from the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, with the collaboration of the cultural organization NEON, to reach the Esplanade of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural
Clues to Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula
The CENIEH has participated in a study on evidence for local extinction and population replacement among Neanderthals even before Homo sapiens.
Isotopic investigation reveals life history of bog bodies in Scotland
Isotope analysis of 'bodies in the bog' found at Cramond reveals several crossed a politically divided Scotland, meeting their end hundreds of miles from their place of birth.