The role of archaeology and museums in recording and interpreting the past during the British Mandate for Palestine is the subject of a new exhibition at The University of Queensland’s RD Milns Antiquities Museum.
23 September 2019A donation by the Queensland Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens (QFAAIA) has allowed UQ’s RD Milns Antiquities Museum to buy a rare Bronze Age chariot figurine from Greece.
15 November 2018The extravagant lifestyle of the Roman Empire will be on show at The University of Queensland from this weekend, in a new exhibition at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum.
7 June 2016A rare Roman medical kit acquired by The University of Queensland’s RD Milns Antiquities Museum is one of the finest and most complete of its type in the world.
25 February 2016A new exhibition at The University of Queensland’s RD Milns Antiquities Museum will showcase the rich and fascinating history and archaeology of ancient and modern day Cyprus.
3 June 2015Where better to celebrate International Museum Day on Monday 18 May than The University of Queensland which has multiple?
15 May 2015Two University of Queensland lecturers and one teaching program have been named among the country’s best at the 2014 Australian Awards for University Teaching in Canberra last night.
10 December 2014If you think that smacking a child is bad, then you would have found it confronting to live in ancient times.
27 August 2014Tombstones and other memorials to the dead bring life to some of the more interesting residents of ancient Greece and Rome at an exhibition opening in Brisbane this week.
4 June 2014Handling Roman artefacts, trying on ancient Greek clothes and playing Egyptian board-games are just some of the free fun activities The University of Queensland’s RD Milns Antiquities Museum is offering these school holidays.
19 December 2013A group of outstanding teachers has been recognised at The University of Queensland's 2013 UQ Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Internationalisation ceremony last night.
29 October 2013Tomorrow, Petrie-born David Andersen will graduate valedictorian at the Arts and Humanities graduation ceremony at The University of Queensland.
18 July 2013The University of Queensland’s R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum will throw its doors open for Wine, Cheese and Ancient Art on 14 June.
13 June 2013Over 50 years, what began as a cluster of artefacts in a professor's room has grown into Queensland's greatest collection of classical Mediterranean antiquities.
11 February 2013Staff in UQ’s School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics are using the lure of foreign countries to make the past come alive.
9 November 2012The relevance of the modern Olympic Games – from war truces to the celebration of athletes - will come under scrutiny at a meeting of Olympic scholars that starts today.
6 July 2012A more “atmospheric” museum space in a busy part of campus is expected to attract more visitors than ever to the university’s collection of ancient relics.
23 March 2012