Archeology

Who lived under the glass?

The construction of the Belgrade metro will provide a chance for the state to change its attitude towards archaeological heritage, and for archaeologists to gain new knowledge about the history of Belgrade.

Archeology

12.February 2026. Saša Rakezić

The riddle of the circular trenches from Orničje

During protective research in the atar of the village of Malča, in the Orničje locality, archaeologists found circular trenches from prehistoric times, absolutely unknown in Serbia, whose purpose and meaning have yet to be interpreted.

Profession

12.February 2026. Maja Miljević-Đajić

Archaeologists wanted

The Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments Nis covers a territory the size of Slovenia. Eight institutes and around 50 archaeologists work in Slovenia, and two archaeologists in Niš "cover" seven districts and 41 municipalities.

New museum

09.January 2026 S. Ć.

Viminacium Museum, the first museum on the site itself

The recently opened Viminacium Museum is exceptional in the country because it is located on the site itself. Archeology and the protection of immovable cultural heritage are priorities of the Ministry of Culture, Minister Selaković said. However, there is no money for Belo brdo in this year's budget, and the General Staff was stripped of its status as a cultural property

On the occasion of the exhibition

16.October 2024 Tatjana Cvjetićanin

Guardians of the Kosmai heritage

The current exhibition of the National Museum of Serbia "From Polytheism to Christianity: Rotunda in Stojnik", apart from talking about the importance of the archaeological heritage of Kosmaj, one of the most representative preserved units of Roman mines on the soil of Europe, indicates that it has not been protected even to this day, and the consequences of the devastation of natural environment

Archeology and politics

11.September 2024 Nemanja Bojić

Turning the past into an armed force

Not only examples from the territories of Kosovo and Serbia, but all over the world, prove that archeology is day by day ceasing to be only a scientific discipline about the human past, but also a weapon used to appropriate territories

Archeology

04.September 2024 Nemanja Bojić

About the limits of time

If several wooden objects had not been left with the body of the deceased pharaoh Snefru, and if Frank Libby had not figured out how to use C-14 to determine the age of organic materials, we would not know basic things about the life of those before our era today.

Archaeological time machine

03.April 2024. Marija Đurić

A red-haired goddess from Neolithic garbage

Publication of an encyclopedia The roots of European civilization - the first comprehensive review of prehistoric archaeological research in Serbia from 1890 to the present day, which is all the more significant because it is based on scientific evidence and not on the various fabricated and seductive sensationalist claims that pseudo-archaeology of this era abounds in.

Archeology

10.December 2023 S.Ć.

Triumphal Arch from Viminacium

The remains of the triumphal gate were found from the time of the Roman emperor Caracalla, who granted civil rights to all free inhabitants of the Roman Empire.

A cultural treasure

26.August 2023 Sonja Ciric

Are Neolithic remains disappearing in Vinci?

The association "Naša mesna zajednica" believes that Dubravka Đukanović, director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, is responsible for the destruction of Neolithic remains at the Belo Brdo archeological site in Vinča.

Archeology

01.August 2023 S.Ć.

Another ship discovered in Viminacium

This summer, another shipwreck was discovered near Viminacium, near the place where similar ones were found three years ago, which proves that the Danube once flowed there