1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (299+ words) In June 2026, the historic Odeon of Herodes Atticus'the Roman theater nestled beneath the Acropolis'will open its gates for one final, momentous month before closing for extensive restoration. Titled "Farewell Celebrations," this year's program serves as a symbolic send-off, curated to…...

10+ hour, 12+ min ago  (196+ words) The deadline for U. S. student filmmakers to submit their films for consideration in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" 35th Student Academy Awards is Tuesday, April 1. The Student Academy Awards is a national annual competition designed to recognize and encourage…...

12+ hour, 59+ min ago  (441+ words) A major digital archive documenting Greek Jewish history before World War II, is now publicly accessible, offering new insight into communities later destroyed during the Holocaust. The online platform, called, Josephus or Iossipos () in Greek contains more than 212, 000 records and…...

13+ hour, 28+ min ago  (311+ words) The UK isn't alone in giving Easter this kind of prominence. Many other European countries, including France, Italy, Sweden, and Spain, treat it as a major holiday. Some go even further. Spain, for example, celebrates Easter for an entire week....

7+ hour, 56+ min ago  (489+ words) Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered striking evidence that ancient women may have led secret societies and played a central role in drinking rituals nearly 5, 500 years ago. The discovery, published in the journal Praehistorische Zeitschrift, comes from excavations at S'aw'cinek in…...

15+ hour, 57+ min ago  (527+ words) Were Greece's Neolithic Dimini people responsible for the violent conquest of the Sesklo people, or did the two settlements in fact live alongside one another for many years peacefully? Dimini, a modern-day Greek village in Thessaly, houses the remains of…...

12+ hour, 28+ min ago  (447+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered a 4, 000-year-old artificial water channel system in central China, offering fresh insight into early urban design and governance during the Xia Dynasty, widely seen as China's earliest known dynasty. The discovery was made at the Wangchenggang site…...

11+ hour, 57+ min ago  (329+ words) The excavation was carried out by a research team from the Archaeology Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences. The team said the site is the first known discovery in the country of salt-production remains from those two prehistoric periods....

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (423+ words) Archaeologists working near the ancient Greek city of Eretria (Greek: "), on the island of Evia (Euboea), Greece, have identified a network of ancient sites that reveals long-term human activity in the region. The large-scale survey is mapping how communities lived…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (492+ words) A burial mound on the small Norwegian island of Leka has revealed one of the oldest ship burials in Scandinavia, a finding that challenges long-held assumptions about when monumental maritime burial practices began in Norway. Researchers published the discovery in…...