On September 6, Dr. Xavier Aquilué Abadías, scientific director of Iberia Graeca Centre at the Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, retired after a long professional career in various public (Ajuntament de Badalona, Ajuntament de Tarragona, Diputació de Barcelona and Generalitat de Catalunya) and private (Col·legi Oficial d’Arquitectes de Catalunya) administrations. Dr. Aquilué expressed his gratitude...

Last December, the Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deporte de la Junta de Andalucía and the Ayuntamiento de Cártama (Málaga) published the book Colección Museográfica de Cártama. Catálogo de la Colección Expositiva, which includes an inventory of the 197 archaeological objects that make up the permanent exhibition of this collection managed by the Ayuntamiento...

During the seventh archaeological excavation campaign carried out last June at the Tartessian site of Casas del Turuñuelo (Guareña, Badajoz, España), 27 fragments of a base and a fluted shaft of an architectural element of marble from the Greek island of Proconnese (Asia Minor) were found. The discovery dates from the destruction phase of...

On April 23, Nature journal published the article “Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors” which compiles the findings of a genetic (DNA) study of 210 individuals from 14 Phoenician-Punic necropolises in the central and Eastern Mediterranean (North Africa, Iberia, Sicily, Sardinia, and Ibiza). This ambitious project involved 64 international researchers,...

In December 2024, the book Reading Ancient Objects Inside Out. Greek Figure-Decorated Pottery in Portugal was published in the Archaeopress Archaeology series. The scientific editors are Rui Morais, Delfim Leão, Maria de Fátima Silva, Daniela Ferreira, and David Wallace-Hare. The monograph examines Greek vases preserved in various museums and collections in Portugal through two...

For the third consecutive year, the City Council of l’Escala (Alt Empordà, Girona) has announced the “Third Autumn International Research Bursary” for research in the social and natural sciences. The scholarship is awarded to the best project submitted whose theme subject of study is related to the landscape, natural environment, history, archaeology, anthropology, and...

Routledge has published the book The Greeks in Iberia and their Mediterranean context (New York, 2024), edited by Jens A. Krasilnikoff and Benedict Lowe, which collects the papers presented at the workshop held at Aarhus University (Denmark) on October 10 and 11, 2013, more than ten years ago, by different researchers of various nationalities....

Once again, the Universidad Popular de Mazarrón, with the la collaboration of the Universidad de Murcia and the Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia, organizes, on March 7, 8 and 9, the 11th edition of Phicaria. Encuentros Internacionales del Mediterráneo that will take place at the headquarters of this University....

Next Thursday, February 20, the Museo Arqueológico Nacional (MAN) will hold a scientific conference around the temporary exhibition Entre Caos y Cosmos. Naturaleza en la Antigua Grecia (October 30, 2024 to March 30, 2025). The conference will take place in the museum’s auditorium, between 10:00 a.m. and 7:15 p.m., and its objective is to...

On December 1, 2022, the Instituto Cervantes de Atenas hosted an Archaeological Research Conference entitled “Mediterranean connections. Present and future perspectives of Spain archaeological research in continental Greece and the Aegean”, organized by the Embajada de España en Grecia and the Instituto Cervantes de Atenas. The Conference presented the results of different archaeological projects...