The New Acropolis Museum will open in Athens tomorrow. “The ceremony will be plain and elegant, not spectacular. We’re leaving spectacular to the museum and its exhibits,” said archaeologist Dimitris Pandermalis.   Here’s a brief description of the new museum. Human researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have learned that […]

In Egypt, an 18th Dynasty tomb (1570 to 1315 B.C.) has been discovered on Luxor’s west bank, in the necropolis of Dra Abu el-Naga. The entrances to two other tombs, mummy fragments, and Ushabti figures have also been found. Stonehenge was a burial ground for 500 years, and possibly for just one ruling family, according […]