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The Ashmolean's exhibition runs to 11 April 2027 and follows Aphrodite from Cyprus, where the museum says she emerged as a goddess, through Greece and Rome to modern art and fashion.
25 Oct 2026Archaeologists digging at the Juukan Gorge rock shelter in WA's Pilbara have collected 50,000 artefacts, the ABC reports, after traditional owners invited it on site.
25 Oct 2026Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities says a rescue excavation in Gharbia, begun after a villager reported an inscribed block, found a Ramesses II head, a probable second statue of the king and a granite block.
25 Oct 2026Türkiye's culture minister says a 2,800-year-old bone flute is the first musical instrument found in more than 160 years of digging at Troy. A 4,500-year-old idol head was announced with it.
25 Oct 2026Cyprus's Department of Antiquities says University of Athens excavators found that a Late Bronze Age bastion at Marchello, Kouklia, was enlarged into a tower of about 7.4 by 7.3 metres. Only the foundations survive.
25 Oct 2026Egypt's antiquities ministry says a mud-brick, pyramid-shaped Roman-era tomb at Bir al-Shaghala in Dakhla Oasis carries Egyptian funerary spells on its entrance and a 19-line Greek elegy.
25 Oct 2026Archaeologists announced the holes of two solstice-aligned posts about 5km from Stonehenge, and a separate study suggests its Altar Stone may have been carried part of the way by a glacier. Here is what each team says.
25 Oct 2026Two skeletons found under Bronze Age roundhouse floors on South Uist were built from the bones of several people, and the excavators' papers say they were mummified first. Here is what the journals show and what they leave open.
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