The Great London [05/13/22] 

  • Greater Middle East: Ancient papyri deciphered by armchair archaeologists

    A project for the deciphering of ancient papyri found in Graeco-Roman Egypt has recruited armchair archaeologists from around the world with amazing results.Half a million papyrus fragments were found [Credit: The Egypt Exploration Society]The Ancient Lives project is a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the Egypt Exp…

  • Southern Europe: Getty Museum returns head of Greek statue to Italy

    The head of an ancient Greek statue of extraordinary artistic and historical value will finally arrive back in Italy on Friday – almost three decades after being illegally ripped from the ground.The terracotta head of the Greek god Hades [Credit: MiBACT]The stunning statue had been on display at the J.Paul Getty museum in Los Ange…

  1. "Alexander the Great: 2000 years of treasures" opens next week in Sydney
  2. New gallery reveals skill of Neolithic Chinese potters at The Oriental Museum in Durham
  3. Arts and crafts in Greek antiquity: Selected finds from a royal necropolis in Northern Greece in Brussels
  4. Meet the ancestors: Exhibition at Bordeaux gallery reveals faces of prehistoric humans
  5. Wonders of Constantinople's underground water world to go on display in Istanbul