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Megan Gannon, Live Science, 08-01-2014
The Mycenaean civilization, which was the backdrop for Homer’s “Odyssey” and “Iliad,” thrived in Greece during the late Bronze Age from around 1700 B.C. until the society mysteriously collapsed around 1200 B.C. The Mycenaeans left behind amazing palaces and gold-littered tombs at sites like Pylos and Mycenae, but in these places, archaeologists also have found less glamorous artifacts, such as
Past Horizons, 07-01-2014
The floors of Greek Bronze Age palaces were made of plaster that was often incised and painted with grids containing brightly coloured patterns and/or marine animal figures. In researching one such floor in the Throne Room at the Palace of Nestor, one of the best-preserved palaces of the Mycenaean civilization, University of Cincinnati Department of Classics doctoral student Emily Catherine
Cyprus Department of Antiquities
The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Communications and Works, announces that after a year gap, the archaeological investigations conducted by the Department of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT) at the early Epipalaeolithic site of Vretsia-Roudias in the Troodos mountains (Pafos District) continued in 2013. The project was carried out over twelve days in November 2013
Archaeology News Network, 08-01-2014
A US team in Egypt has identified the tomb of pharaoh Sobekhotep I, believed to be the founder of the 13th dynasty 3,800 years ago, the antiquities minister said Monday. The team from the University of Pennsylvania had discovered the quartzite sarcophagus of Sobekhotep I, which weighed about 60 tonnes, a year ago, but was unable to identify who it
Heritage Daily
Archaeologists from the University of Southampton studying a Neolithic archaeological site in central Greece have helped unearth over 300 clay figurines, one of the highest density for such finds in south-eastern Europe. The Southampton team, working in collaboration with the Greek Archaeological Service and the British School at Athens, is studying the site of Koutroulou Magoula near the Greek village
Museum of Cycladic Αrt
Aiming at the wider dissemination of knowledge about ancient Cyprus, the MCA is starting a new series of public talks titled “Cyprus Seminar: Recent developments in the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean”. The seminar will take place on the first Monday of each month in the lecture room of the museum (5th floor, 4 Neophytou Douka Street), and will include
in.gr, 24-12-2013
Πέθανε στη Μόσχα, σε ηλικία 84 χρόνων, ο διαπρεπής αρχαιολόγος Βίκτωρ Σαρηγιαννίδης. Επιστήμονας παγκόσμιου κύρους, ο ελληνικής καταγωγής αρχαιολόγος με την πολύχρονη ανασκαφική δραστηριότητά του στην περιοχή της κεντρικής Ασίας, συνέβαλε καθοριστικά στην ανάδειξη των στοιχείων του ελληνικού πολιτισμού στην ευρύτερη περιοχή της Μαύρης Θάλασσας, αλλά και στην ανακάλυψη των ελληνικών ριζών του πολιτισμού της Κεντρικής Ασίας, ανάμεσα στο σημερινό
British School at Athens
It is with deep sadness that we report the death of a dear colleague and friend, Professor Christopher Mee (1950-2013) (University of Liverpool), who had a long involvement with the BSA through various roles from Assistant Director, Editor of the Annual, and Visiting Fellow, in addition to directing many field projects in Greece.
He will be greatly missed and our
Owen Jarus, Live Science, 04-12-2013
Multiple tombs lay hidden in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, where royalty were buried more than 3,000 years ago, awaiting discovery, say researchers working on the most extensive exploration of the area in nearly a century. The hidden treasure may include several small tombs, with the possibility of a big-time tomb holding a royal individual, the archaeologists say.
Egyptian archaeologists
Ελένη Παναγοπούλου-Καράμπελα, Archaeology & Arts, 16-12-2013
Η Εφορεία Παλαιοανθρωπολογίας-Σπηλαιολογίας Νότιας Ελλάδας (ΕΠΣΝΕ) του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού είναι υπεύθυνη για την έρευνα, την προστασία και την ανάδειξη των σπηλαίων και παλαιοντολογικών καταλοίπων της κεντρικής και νότιας Ελλάδας, του νότιου και νοτιοανατολικού Αιγαίου, της Κρήτης και του Ιονίου. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό διεξάγει έρευνες πεδίου και ανασκαφές σε σπήλαια που διασώζουν αρχαιολογικά κατάλοιπα από την απώτατη προϊστορία (Παλαιολιθική,
Past Horizons, 10-12-2013
Artefacts found at an archaeological site in Cyprus support a new theory that humans occupied the Mediterranean island about 1,000 years earlier than previously believed – a discovery that fills an important gap in Cypriot history. Excavations at Ayia Varvara-Asprokremnos (AVA) by archaeologists from the University of Toronto, Cornell University and the University of Cyprus have uncovered, among other objects,
Science Daily, 03-12-2013
Research led by Professors Paul Blackwell and Caitlin Buck from the University of Sheffield’s School of Mathematics and Statistics and Professor Paula Reimer from Queen’s University Belfast has resulted in a new, internationally agreed radiocarbon calibration curve which will provide improved accuracy to archaeologists, environmental scientists and climate researchers who rely on radiocarbon dating to put their findings onto a
Nestor 40.9 (December 2013) is available for download at http://classics.uc.edu/nestor/.
Past Horizons, 05-12-2013
Using novel techniques to extract and study ancient DNA researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have determined an almost complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a 400,000-year-old representative of the genus Homo from Sima de los Huesos, a unique cave site in Northern Spain, and found that it is related to the mitochondrial genome of
Archaeology & Arts, 05-12-2013
Τα αποτελέσματα της υποβρύχιας αρχαιολογικής έρευνας στο ναυάγιο «Μέντωρ» στα Κύθηρα, που ολοκληρώθηκε στις 6 Ιουλίου 2013, ανακοίνωσε η Εφορεία Εναλίων Αρχαιοτήτων. Σύμφωνα με την ανακοίνωση, ανασκάφθηκαν ένα τμήμα της πρύμνης του πλοίου, όπου είχαν εντοπιστεί κατά το παρελθόν προσωπικά αντικείμενα των επιβατών και του πληρώματος και στο τμήμα αυτό εντοπίστηκε και ανελκύστηκε μία ακόμα πιστόλα, οβίδες κανονιών και τουλάχιστον
