Archaeology
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Rio Tinto CEO and senior executives resign from company after Juukan Gorge debacle
The Rio Tinto chief executive, Jean-Sébastien Jacques, and two other senior executives are leaving the global miner after its board bowed…
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Bronze age Britons made keepsakes from parts of dead relatives, archaeologists say
Bronze age Britons remembered the dead by keeping and curating bits of their bodies, and even turning them into instruments…
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‘Final frontier of Australian archaeology’: Drowned artefacts reveal first underwater heritage sites
But in a fresh example of the tension between heritage and industrial values in the region, these cultural riches are…
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Art historian Alice Procter is on a mission to decolonise museums and galleries in her ‘Uncomfortable Art Tours’
Do you think about how they were acquired? ABC Arts / By Hannah Reich for The Art Show Or, how…
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Athens hotel ordered to demolish top floors blocking Acropolis view
A battle over the right to enjoy uninterrupted views of the Acropolis has resulted in a five-star hotel being ordered…
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Children are doing archaeology – and becoming experts who enrich whole communities
They will use the results of this experiment to better understand an archaeological find: the broken pieces of an old…
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Virtual reality can bring ancient cities back to life and improve conservation
The city’s origins date back to 3000BC and the first alphabet and alphabetic writing system are believed to have developed…
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Should the Parthenon Marbles Be Returned to Greece?
This sentence cries out for justice. Mary Norris The New Yorker It makes you long to see not only the…
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‘They are barbaric’: Turkey prepares to flood 12,000-year-old city to build dam
After the half-hour drive from Batman in south-east Turkey, the ancient city of Hasankeyf, which sits on the banks of…
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I’m one of hundreds of archaeologists exiled from Syria who’s mourning what the war is costing us
Nowadays, I am stuck in academic purgatory, observing from a great distance as the country burns, unable to help protect…
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Feeding the world: archaeology can help us learn from history to build a sustainable future for food
About a quarter of all the greenhouse gas emissions that humans generate each year come from how we feed the…
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Archaeologists unearth probable origins of ancient Greece in groundbreaking discovery
The complex of 60 marble buildings dates back 4,600 years and was discovered on a tiny mountain-peak-shaped island off the…
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Budj Bim inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage list
The site, created 6600 years ago, spans almost 100 square kilometres and features what is believed to be the world’s…
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Acropolis Museum opens ancient Athens neighbourhood site below its base
Greece’s Acropolis Museum opened an excavation site underneath its modern building on Friday, allowing visitors for the first time to…
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Music was ubiquitous in Ancient Greece
Now we can hear how it actually sounded Much of what we think of as Ancient Greek poetry, including Homer’s…
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New clues to the lost tomb of Alexander the Great discovered in Egypt
Excavations in Alexandria’s ancient royal quarter provide intriguing hints to the famous conqueror’s final resting place. By Erin Blakemore National…
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