Archaeology

Pompeii, Small Fountain House reopens and visits to excavation and restoration sites resume

With the reopening to the public of the house of the Small Fountain at the Pompeii Archaeological Park at the conclusion of the restoration work site, the new season of the Telling the Sites initiative will begin on Thursday, November 21. Now in its ...
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The Italian archaeologist of 2024 is female, freelance and highly trained

From the data emerging from the research Discovering the Archaeologists of Italy 2024, conducted by the Italian Confederation of Archaeologists (CIA) and presented at the conference 20 Years of CIA, 20 Years for Archaeology - From the Code to the Wor...
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New findings in Altino Archaeological Park reveal evidence of metallurgical activity

Excavations in the Altino Archaeological Park have resumed thanks to specific funding provided for the first time by the Ministry of Culture through the General Directorate of Museums. These funds have been earmarked for excavation campaigns in natio...
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Rare discovery in England: gladiator-shaped knife found!

Rare and fascinating discovery in northernEngland, in the River Tyne, near the Roman town of Corbridge, not far from Hadrian's Wall. In fact, a knife handle in the shape of a gladiator, a very rare object in these parts, has been found.Reporting the ...
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In auction in New York the oldest known table with the Ten Commandments

In December, Sotheby's will auction at its New York headquarters a singular item: the oldest stone tablet engraved with the Ten Commandments. Dating from the late Byzantine period, this artifact is about 1,500 years old and is the only complete table...
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Rome, an Etruscan site on the Cassia discovered in 2020 opens to the public for the first time

A new archaeological enhancement project is seeing the light of day along the historic Via Cassia at km 11.700, on the outskirts of Rome, where excavations conducted between 2020 and 2022 led to the discovery of an ancient Etruscan and Roman site. Th...
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Pompeii, new discovery disproves decades of assumptions about relationships between inhabitants

New discoveries from Pompeii could change our knowledge about the great archaeological site. A recent study by researchers from theUniversity of Florence, Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig used ancient DNA analysis to revise ...
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Greece, archaeologists excavate the Temple of Poseidon they had been searching for more than a century

New discoveries in Greece, along the western coast of the Peloponnese, on the great temple dedicated to Poseidon, the god of the sea: news of the discovery had already been given a few months ago, and now archaeologists have discovered the dimensions...
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Sicily, ancient Roman amphorae found in the sea between Marina di Noto and Vendicari

In Sicily, in the waters of the Vendicari Nature Reserve, along the coast between Marina di Noto and the protected area, a discovery of great archaeological significance has been made: some 40 ancient amphorae dating from the first century B.C. to th...
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Pompeii, House of Phaedra discovered, a rare domus without an atrium. Which also has an erotic fresco

In Pompeii, a new ongoing archaeological excavation in the area of theinsula of the Casti Amanti has unearthed a rare housing typology that testifies to social and cultural change in first-century AD Rome. The house, which takes the provisional name ...
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Rare 4,000-year-old copper dagger found in Trieste Karst

A rare dagger dating back more than 4,000 years to theCopper Age has been found in Tina Jama Cave, located in the Trieste Karst in Sgonico. The discovery, which occurred along with numerous ceramic fragments and stone artifacts, is the result of exca...
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They found a treasure trove of Norman coins underground: an entity bought it for £4.3 million

In England, a treasure trove of 2,584 silver coins from the Norman era has been purchased for the sum of 4.3 million pounds (5.16 million euros), making it the most valuable archaeological discovery in the history of the United Kingdom. It is the so...
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Archaeologists discover Armenia's oldest church, among the oldest in the world. "Sensational"

One of the world's oldest Christian churches has been discovered in Armenia : archaeologists from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and the University of Münster (Germany) have in fact uncovered the remains of a previously unknown earl...
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Sicily, a Roman village of well-to-do people discovered in Vizzini. There was also a domus with mosaics

In Sicily, near Vizzini (Catania), archaeologists from theUniversity of Göttingen, who have been conducting excavations in this area of the island for several years, have discovered the remains of a Roman domus with a mosaic floor from the 2nd-4th c...
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Rare discovery in Egypt: here is the tomb of the governor's daughter

Important archaeological discovery in Egypt, where an Egyptian-German archaeological mission led by Sohag University and the Free University of Berlin has discovered, inside the tomb of Governor Djefai-Hapi in the Assiut region (which Djefai-Hapi adm...
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Vikings traded ivory with Arctic inhabitants several centuries before Columbus

Vikings traded with the Arctic natives of Greenland several centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in America. The discovery was made byLund University in Sweden, which examined the ancient DNA of a walrus to arrive at these conclusions.An int...
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