IN THE NEWS … Archaeologists uncover 250-metre wall at ancient Greek city of Blaundos in Türkiye – Greek City Times Selinunte, a search for the spot where Trajan mysteriously died. Tombs and …

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In his new book, “How to Speak Freely,” classicist Michael Fontaine of the College of Arts and Sciences shows that thousands of years ago, Athenians were struggling with the same topics societies stru...

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Low-budget, but with unforgettable actors and scripting, the television adaptation of the Robert Graves classic was a forerunner of period series, legendary soap operas, and it would seem, certain pol...

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Sex sells, we’re often told – and, it seems, Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum agrees. With a sinuous female nude painted in around 1490 by Sandro Botticelli as its poster girl, this new exhibition offers a z...

In August AD 117, a ship carrying the Roman emperor put in at the coast of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey. Its most important passenger was too ill to travel any farther. Trajan had ruled for...

Review of Antigone Exits at Minerva Studio at Chichester Festival Theatre for Theatre and Tonic

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Podcast Episode · Visualising War and Peace · 4 October · 46min

What do we know about the history of crucifixion? Hershel Shanks looks at evidence of Roman crucifixion methods as analyzed from the remains found in Jerusalem of a young man crucified in the first c...

Around 150 square metres of Roman mosaic flooring at the Regio VII Baths archaeological site in Sabratha have been reburied to protect them from deterioration caused by weather and vegetation. Researc...

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Recent excavations at the Bath Assembly Rooms in England revealed Roman-era coins, roof tiles, pottery, glassware, a network of ditches and a fragment of a military helmet

Over 500 years before the building of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, First Dynasty kings were buried in a tomb surrounded by many burials of household officials and artisans—many of which seem to have ta...

Off the coast of Turkey, archaeologists are recovering plates, bowls, and amphorae from a Roman shipwreck. The cargo sheds light on the Mediterranean trade network.

This month, Sotheby's will offer an extraordinary Roman marble torso which has survived many thousands of years largely intact

There is growing interest in the possibility of hidden spaces next to the king’s tomb.

A new study suggests Mycenaean mourners used gold, glass and weapons to transform the dead into carefully composed burial images.

Selinunte, oggi Gazipaşa, torna al centro dell’archeologia: nuove ricognizioni studiano tombe, mura e il monumento forse legato alla morte di Traiano.

When people today say, “God sees me,” they are often communicating their sense that God knows what they are going through, e.g., they do not suffer alone. L

The Department of Classical Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Richmond invites applications for a full-time

mundus patet – the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November 8) at which time the gates of th…

IN THE NEWS … Rome: Here’s How the Grand Archaeological Complex Stretching from the Imperial Forums to the Circus Maximus Is Taking Shape Due nuovi reperti archeologici dall’antic…

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A study by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) contrasts the fiction of Homer’s Odyssey with actual archaeological evidence.

A new book by classicist Michael Fontaine, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences, connects ancient debates on free speech to modern concerns about misinformation, dissent and open inquiry. His new tran...

In southwestern Germany, an open-air museum and a website present the Heuneburg as the "Celtic city of Pyrene", a settlement already thriving when Rome was still a small village on the Tiber. The name...

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Roman amulets survived the rise of Christianity. Patricia Kret studied 300 of them and found how crosses, Bible verses and old habits blended.

A rare bronze statuette of the ancient Greek god Priapus has been discovered during archaeological excavations at the Roman city of Novae near Svishtov. Only five similar finds are known from the Lowe...

Archaeologists uncover new wall paintings, mosaic floors, and Late Antique structures at ancient Smyrna in Türkiye, alongside a 2,000-year-old water channel.

An elite warrior buried inside a sacred circle was accompanied by a magical pentagram, a rare gold stater, weapons and his horse.

Archaeologists excavating the Roman vicus of Pilisszentiván have uncovered a lead statuette of Venus alongside coins, tools and other objects offering new insights into everyday life at the ancient se...

The Latino Theater Company’s production with the Getty Villa moves “Antigone” to pre-conquest Aztec Empire, creating a multisensory experience that speaks to the present.

Olive Fawcett speaks to the team behind this year's Greek Play: Euripides’ Ion

Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of road, perhaps, or a lone farmstead. At Sermaize, in the Hauts-de-France regi...