10TH BALKAN

SYMPOSIUM ON

ARCHAEOMETRY

Connecting Minds: Unveiling the Past Together

19–22 October 2026

Budapest

WELCOME

The Balkan Symposium on Archaeometry (BSA) conference series focuses on the scientific examination of archaeological finds, and more broadly, cultural heritage, in Balkan countries through the lens of archaeometry and archaeological science. As part of the conference series launched in 2008, symposia have been held every two years in various Southern European countries, including North Macedonia (Ohrid, 2008), Turkey (Istanbul, 2010), Romania (Bucharest, 2012), Bulgaria (Nessebar, 2014), Romania (Sinaia, 2016), Slovenia (Ljubljana, 2018), Greece (Athens, 2020), Serbia, (Belgrade, 2022) and Croatia (Zadar, 2024).

The 10th international conference to be held in Budapest provides a unique opportunity for archaeologists, archaeometrists and scientists from the Balkans and beyond to meet and exchange ideas on the latest developments in archaeometry, archaeological science and heritage science. Attendees will also have the chance to present their latest research results spanning the prehistoric to early modern ages.

The conference will be organized in four days:

a three-day conference presenting sessions (invited, oral and poster presentations) and one-day tour to archaeological and historical places and museums and laboratories.

The Budapest photographs on the website were taken by Zsolt Kasztovszky.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

The conference is organised in cooperation with the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, and Institute of Archaeology, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities.