A statue of Ramesses II has been placed in the Grand Hall of the Great Egyptian Museum so that the rays of the sun will illuminate it on February 22 and October 22 each year.
Closing on March 14: “Queen Nefertari’s Egypt,” at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.
Carole Raddato provides a list of the top 5 archaeological sites in Lebanon.
The British Museum identifies the top 10 historical board games, beginning with the Royal Game of Ur.
Duncan Howitt-Marshall explains how the ancient Greeks set us on the path to Mars.
Police recovered a rare bronze plate with a decree from Emperor Tiberius.
The renovated mausoleum of Emperor Augustus in Rome has reopened after being closed for many years.
Tyler Rossi writes about portraiture on ancient Roman coinage, noting that Julius Caesar was the first living person depicted on a Roman coin. Was this why he was assassinated?
in AramcoWorld’s well-illustrated article “The Quest for Blue,” Tom Verde explains that the color blue, while pervasive in nature, is much harder to reproduce and required considerable ingenuity in the ancient world.
Now in paperback from Oxford University Press: Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, by Laura Sarah Nasrallah.
HT: Agade, Explorator, Ted Weis, Paleojudaica
