The climate of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean was far more turbulent than previously thought—and a new study suggests that ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo will formally launch a new Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology (IEMA) on April 3 with an inaugural ceremony and the institute's first ...

A Turkish sponge diver's discovery of "metal biscuits with ears" in 1982 led to the unearthing of the Uluburun wreck, a ...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, in partnership with the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and Cleveland Archaeological Society, will offer a remote series featuring renowned classical ...

The site to be surveyed in the central Mediterranean, between Sicily and Tunisia, is believed to be home to hundreds of wrecked ships. The Alfred Merlin archeological research ship, whuch was debuted ...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—Archaeologists can learn a lot about a Mediterranean shipwreck by examining the surrounding underwater ecology, according to information presented at annual meeting of the ...

A recently launched digital humanities project allows users to interact with a map of "at risk" archaeological sites in the Middle East and in North Africa--and to uncover imperiled ancient sites ...

Two thousand years ago the Mediterranean Sea was a haven for two species of whale which have since virtually disappeared from the North Atlantic, a new study analyzing ancient bones suggests. The ...

Last week, Italian police divers returned to the Bay of San Fruttuoso near Genoa to perform the annual cleaning of the most famous underwater monument in the Mediterranean, Guido Galletti's Christ of ...

From October 31 to November 3, 2024, the Ministry of Culture will participate in the 26th Mediterranean Exchange of Archaeological Tourism (BMTA), a highly significant event that will take place in ...

People were navigating the Mediterranean in "technologically sophisticated" canoe-like boats more than 7,000 years ago, reveals new research. Excavations at an archaeological site in Italy recovered ...

Prehistory in the Mediterranean: the connecting and corrupting sea / A. Bernard Knapp and Emma Blake -- Substances in motion: Neolithic Mediterranean 'trade' / John E. Robb and R. Helen Farr -- ...