Greeks in the Phoenician-Punic city of Baria (Villaricos, Almería)

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,...

The Greeks in Iberia and their Mediterranean context

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....

Mediterranean connections

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...

Entre Caos y Cosmos. Naturaleza en la Antigua Grecia

Last October 30, the temporary exhibition Entre el Caos y Cosmos. Naturaleza en la Antigua Grecia was inaugurated at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional (MAN) which can be seen for free until March 30, 2025. The exhibition explains the meaning and relationship with Nature that the ancient Greeks maintained through more than a hundred archaeological...

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