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From March 17th to November 11th 2018 the exhibition Byzantium & the West - A Millenium Forgotten , planned by Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, will take place at the Renaissance Castle …
Discover the Neanderthal Man at Paris Musée de l’Homme . For this second major exhibition, the museum focuses on another human species that disappeared over 35,000 years ago, after living on the Eart…
The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki presents the temporary exhibition "Figurines. A Microcosmos of Clay". The exhibition is devoted to ancient terracotta figurines, an important cate…
The Acropolis Museum started in 2015 a series of temporary exhibitions displaying important ancient artifacts, deriving from significant archaeological sites of the Greek periphery. The Museum’s goal…
The temporary exhibition Mummies in Bruges – Secrets of Ancient Egypt will be inaugurated on 31 March, 2018, at the Oud Sint-Jan Exhibition Centre in Bruges. This fascinating exhibition comprises 9…
In 1908, The Metropolitan Museum of Art began to excavate late-antique sites in the Kharga Oasis, located in Egypt's Western Desert. The Museum's archaeologists uncovered two-story houses, pa…
Early depictions of the gorgon Medusa - a monster from Greek mythology - show an ugly, winged woman with serpents entwined in her hair, bulging eyes, a wide grin, a protruding tongue, and boar tusks,…
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of an early 5th-century B.C. bronze appliqué depicting the Etruscan Sun God Usil. Appliqué depicting the Sun God Usil, Etruscan, 500 - 475 B.C…
This exhibition, organized by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades in collaboration with the French School at Athens and the Byzantine and Christian Museum, brings together a selection of “snapsho…
More than $50 million worth of gold bars, coins and dust that's been described as the greatest lost treasure in U.S. history is about to make its public debut in California after sitting at the b…
Achievements of ancient Greek technology can now be seen and admired in Athens at the Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, Kostas Kotsanas , which opened its doors recently. Credit: Thomas J. Nanos Th…
The exhibition 'Carthage and the Etruscans: an old friendship' at the Carthage National Museum was inaugurated on Friday January 19 by the Tunisian Culture Minister Mohamed Zine el Abidine a…
From myth and legend to warfare, sport, and transportation, the horse played an integral role in ancient Greek culture. Wealthy Greeks belonged to the social class of knights and hunted to develop sk…
The Block Museum of Art and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University delve into the art and science of ancient artifacts in the exhibition “Paint the Eyes Softer: Mummy Portrait…
