The Great London [05/24/22] 

  • Near East: Youngest ancient Egyptian human foetus discovered in miniature coffin

    A miniature ancient Egyptian coffin measuring just 44cm in length has been found to contain the youngest ever example of a human foetus to be embalmed and buried in Egyptian society. This discovery is the only academically verified specimen to exist at only sixteen to eighteen weeks of gestation.This coffin, found by archaeologist…

  • Travel: 'From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics' at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

    The highly anticipated exhibition From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics, opens at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) on February 12, 2015. With some 50 outstanding ancient objects, and more than 100 related documents, photographs, and drawings, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the fascinati…

  • Environment: Warming opens famed Northwest Passage to navigation

    Beneath the Aurora Borealis an oil tanker glides through the night past the Coast Guard ice breaker Amundsen and vanishes into the maze of shoals and straits of the Northwest Passage, navigating waters that for millennia were frozen over this time of year.The CCGS Amundsen reasearch ice breaker navigates near Devon Island in the C…

  1. US museum tells blind visitors: Please touch!
  2. Extremely rare skeleton and coffin go on display at JORVIK Viking Centre
  3. Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, Third to Seventh Century AD
  4. Sculptures of Stoa of Attalos in ancient Agora to be showcased
  5. 13th-century Reliquary of St. Maurus on display at Prague Castle