“Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered 400 rock-cut chamber tombs that date to 1,800 years ago and make up part of one of the largest rock-cut chamber tomb necropolises in the world.”
There is controversy over a renovation plan for the Bodrum Museum which would relocate the famous shipwrecks of the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in order to convert the space into a mosque.
The ancient city of Dolichiste was a thriving Lycian trading hub until it was partially submerged in the Byzantine period.
The tombs of gladiators in Ephesus shed light on our knowledge of the ancient warriors.
An Italian archaeologist who has been excavating in Turkey for 30 years is ready to retire.
“During the excavation of the now-famous northwest corner of Rameses III’s fortress from the first half of the 12th century BCE, archaeologists unexpectedly came across two more fortress walls covering each other.”
New exhibit at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis: “Writing in Three Dimensions: Myth and Metaphor in Ancient Egypt,” through November 29.
Personal letters provide insight into the lives of ancient Egyptians.
Archaeologists have made what they are calling a “sensational” new find with the discovery of a skeleton a step away from the sea at Herculaneum.
A Lebanese official has been caught with antiquities looted from Syrian museums in his office.
“Escape to the past and explore true crime in antiquity during a free week-long online experience of the Getty Villa Museum’s annual College Night.”
Leon Mauldin has recently returned from a tour of Greece and Turkey, and he shares photos of Assos and Corinth.
Thomas Parker, director of several archaeological projects in Jordan, passed away suddenly last month.
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Arne Halbakken, Ted Weis, A.D. Riddle, Paleojudaica, Explorator, BibleX
