A priceless 2,000-year-old Aphrodite statue was seized by the police along with 13 other historical artifacts on July 12 in Istanbul. The Roman period statue of Aphrodite recovered by Turkish authorities [Credit: DHA] Istanbul anti-smuggling police units contacted two… Continue Reading
A World Heritage site in central Mali that features elaborate pre-Islamic mud houses is in danger of deteriorating because it cannot be protected adequately in the face of insecurity, UNESCO said on Wednesday. The Great Mosque in Djenne, Mali… Continue Reading
In the fall of 2003, a heavy rainstorm swept through the ruins of Teotihuacán, the pyramid-studded, pre-Aztec metropolis 30 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City. Dig sites sloshed over with water; a torrent of mud and debris coursed past rows… Continue Reading
The second expedition of underwater archaeological surveys at Fourni of Ikaria, conducted by the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities has been completed. The aim of the survey is to located, record, map and investigate the ancient and medieval shipwrecks in the… Continue Reading
A cross-party group of MPs has launched a fresh bid to return the so-called Elgin Marbles to Greece on the 200th anniversary of the British Government’s decision to buy them — a move that campaigners said could help the UK… Continue Reading
Archaeologist Carenza Lewis of the University of Lincoln excavated 2,000 one-meter-square pits in 55 rural settlements occupied before and after the plague across eastern Britain, looking for the concentration of pottery shards, broken bits of everyday pottery. “Under every village,… Continue Reading
Thanks to the Melbourne Museum, you can relive the destruction of Pompeii from your smart phone or computer. Buried and thus frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of 11,000 has provided… Continue Reading
Archaeologists are learning just how formidable Athens’ naval war machine really was after excavating parts of two of the three militarized harbors built in Piraeus. “We have identified, for the first time, the 5th century BC naval bases of Piraeus—the… Continue Reading
Archaeologists have begun to search for the remains of Henry Ist. Unlike Richard IIIrd we know that Henry I was buried somewhere in Reading Abbey. The problem lies is that during the reign of Henry the VIIIth, that he dissolved… Continue Reading
Philadelphia Magazine reports on a large quantity of archaeological materials that have been recovered from, ummm, privies occupying the site where the Museum of the American Revolution is being erected in Philadelphia, in the heart of what locals call “Old… Continue Reading