At a presentation on the University of Toronto campus, Dr. Marisa Marthari, of the KA Ephorate of the Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities Greece, discussed a new discovery on Santorini. Her team is in the process of excavating a site called Raos. It’s a building complex on the Akrotiri peninsula, but a good distance from the ancient city itself. The team
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A team of archaeologists, led by Professor Vance Watrous and Matt Buell of the University at Buffalo, have discovered a fortification system at the Minoan town of Gournia. The discovery rebukes the popular myth that the Minoans were a peaceful society with no need for defensive structures. That idea arose from work done in the early 20th century by Sir
The island of Antikythera occupies a unique place in the ancient world. It is about three kilometres long and was used as a base for pirates during Hellenistic Times. A shipwreck dating to this period carried a complex device called the Antikythera Mechanism which could calculate astronomical positions. Now there is a new chapter to add to the island’s past.
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Το ακατοίκητο νησί των Κυκλάδων, μεταξύ της Νάξου και της Αμοργού, που ήταν το θέατρο μιας από τις μεγαλύτερες υποθέσεις λαθρανασκαφής του 20ού αιώνα, εξακολουθεί να είναι από τα πιο σκοτεινά πεδία της αρχαιολογικής έρευνας. Ηταν νεκροταφείο; Ηταν εμπορικό κέντρο; Ηταν απλώς ένα εργαστήριο; Ηταν ιερό; Ή μήπως οι αρχαιοκάπηλοι είναι η αιτία που όλα σήμερα στην Κέρο μοιάζουν μπερδεμένα
Using cutting-edge microscopy techniques, researchers have gained insight into how human mummies can be extremely well-preserved for thousands of years. A team of scientists from Germany and Italy has investigated skin samples from Europe’s oldest natural mummy, the 5,300-year-old “Iceman” who was buried in a glacier shortly after death in the Otzal Alps between Italy and Austria. The researchers found
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Η μεγαλύτερη επιφανειακή αρχαιολογική έρευνα στον ελλαδικό χώρο, έκτασης οκτασίων τετραγωνικών χιλιομέτρων, έχει πραγματοποιηθεί στην περιοχή Πεδιάδας του Νομού Ηρακλείου από τον αρχαιολόγο Νίκο Παναγιωτάκη, με αποτέλεσμα τον εντοπισμό πάνω από δύο χιλιάδων άγνωστων αρχαιολογικών θέσεων όλων των ιστορικών περιόδων στην περιοχή, τον εντοπισμό της θέσης του ανακτόρου του Γαλατά, του πρώτου εντοπισμένου μινωικού ανακτόρου στην ενδοχώρα της Κρήτης και
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals may be gone but they’re not forgotten — at least not in the human genome. A genetic analysis of nearly 2,000 people from around the world indicates that such extinct species interbred with the ancestors of modern humans twice, leaving their genes within the DNA of people today.
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The idea that palaeolithic art is based in religious beliefs isn’t new. But for years, anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art understood these artistic manifestations as purely aesthetic and decorative motives. Eduardo Palacio-Pérez, researcher at the University of Cantabria (UC), now reveals the origins of the theory.
Excavations began in the various archaeological sites that once housed farming communities, including Tel al-Abar 3 sites on the left bank of the Euphrates River (northern Syria) which dates back to the 10th millennium BC. Assistant Director of the Syrian Department of Archaeology and Museums Thaer Yerte said excavations at the site revealed information about the communities that settled on
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The oldest stone wall in Greece, which has stood at the entrance of a cave in Thessaly for the last 23,000 years, has been discovered by palaeontologists, the ministry of culture said 22 March 2010. The age of the find, determined by an optical dating test, singles it out as “probably one of the oldest in the world”, according to
Tal Bokrous is a sample of the first agricultural village built according to the architectural style of the Stone Age in Deir Ezzor, (432 kms northeast of Damascus, Syria). The site is the only archaeological discovery at the Middle Euphrates Region which belongs to the booming phase of the Neolithic era. The Neolithic era (New Stone Age), was a period
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Μυκηναϊκούς τάφους έφερε στο φως η ανασκαφή που διεξάγεται στη νεκρόπολη της Αιανής στην Κοζάνη αποδεικνύοντας τον ενιαίο πολιτισμό της εποχής του Χαλκού, που ήταν εξαπλωμένος σε όλο τον ελλαδικό χώρο, από την Κρήτη ως και τη Μακεδονία. «Ως τώρα έχουν εντοπισθεί περισσότερες από 20 θέσεις με μυκηναϊκά ευρήματα στον νομό της Κοζάνης, τα οποία είναι αδιάψευστοι μάρτυρες της κατοίκησης
Τη στιγμή που οι ανασκαφές του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης συρρικνώνονται, λόγω έλλειψης χρημάτων, η ΔΕΗ δίνει ευκαιρία για τη μεγαλύτερη σε έκταση ανασκαφή σε νεολιθικό οικισμό, στον Κλείτο Κοζάνης.
Paper by Georgia Stratouli, Sevi Triantafillou, Nikos Katsikaridis and Tasos Bekiaris on burial practices at the Neolithic settlement of Avgi, kastoria. The paper was presented at the Archaeological Work of Macedonia and Thrace, 11-13 March 2010, Thessaloniki.
