Archaeology Travel

From the perspective of Cleopatra’s capital, Alexandria, David Stuttard and Sam Moorhead recount the chain of events which led to the fall of Egypt and examine the personalities involved in this gripping story.

"Greece reopened on Wednesday the Bronze Age site of Akrotiri on the tourist island of Santorini, seven years after its roof collapsed, killing a British visitor."

"The unique “treasures” from the land of Cyprus – every artifact comes from the great collection of Thanos Zintilis – are of significant historical value for the Mediterranean island. The public of Athens is now about to welcome them in the reconstructed third floor of the Cycladic Art Museum where they will be exhibited. The organizers of the exhibition consider it to be an international breakthrough."

The exhibition will feature over 400 objects, spanning over 2000 years – many seen in Australia for the first time.

Andrew Robinson, author and former literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement, discusses his new book, the first biography in English of Champollion, the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and the scholar widely considered to be the founder of Egyptology.

"I like to start a visit to Thessaloniki with an early morning stroll through the market district and perhaps a wee ouzo in one of its back-alley cafés. Then a tour of the fish hall, among stalls..."

The most western ancient Greek colony documented in the Mediterranean is revealing its secrets through the development of a Document Centre on Greek trade and presence in Iberia, according to the creators of the Iberia Graeca centre.

The colloquium will feature 20 papers by international speakers on imaging athletics, ideas and ideology, risk and reward, locations, status, revivals and receptions.

Leslie Webster, formerly British Museum and author of Anglo-Saxon Art: A New History, will trace this fascinating era of art, and its recurring ideas and themes, as it changed from 5th-century metalwork to the magnificent illuminated manuscripts, ivories and sculpture of the 7th–11th centuries.

The Oedipus Cycle tells the tragedies of the house of Labdacus, beginning with Oedipus' futile attempts to avoid the fate of killing his father and marrying his mother. A tragedy like no other, Oedipus serves as the paradigm of human suffering and helplessness.

A new exhibit called A Day In Pompeii is coming to the Cincinnati Museum Center.