Archaeology - Finestre sull'Arte

A newly discovered Hittite tablet reveals surprising details about the Trojan War

In 2024, an archaeological discovery piqued the interest of the scientific community: the Hittite tablet known as Keilfischurkunden aus Boghazköi offers new information about the conflict that inspired the legend of the Trojan War. The tablet, b...
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TLH dig Beta 0.2: a new step in digitizing more than 21,000 Hittite tablets

The Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis (TLH dig), a project that aims to be a dynamic and ever-expanding digital archive, has been updated with Beta version 0.2 as of March 2025, bringing with it a profound change in the possibilities offered t...
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Bolzano, carabinieri find and return eight valuable archaeological finds

On the morning of April 2, 2025, the Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (TPC) unit in Venice returned eight valuable ceramic artifacts, dating from between the 11th and 6th centuries B.C., to the Provincial Cultural Heritage Office in Bolzano. T...
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Israel, little girl on field trip discovers 3,800-year-old amulet: a rare Bronze Age beetle

Sometimes the most amazing archaeological discoveries happen by accident. It happened in early March in Israel, when Ziv Nitzan, a three-and-a-half-year-old girl from the village (moshav) of Ramot Meir, found an ancient scarab-shaped amulet during a ...
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The National Museum of Chiusi and the National Museum of Taranto sign an agreement: start with an exhibition on Andromeda

A link between past and present unites the National Archaeological Museum in Taranto and the National Etruscan Museum in Chiusi. Two female figures, Penelope and Andromeda, serve as a common thread in an initiative to exchange and enhance archaeologi...
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The rise of kingship beyond big cities: new discoveries from two sites in Turkey

A few weeks ago, the Cambridge Archaeological Journal published a survey that is raising interest in the academic community. The article, a result of years of excavation and analysis at two important archaeological sites in Turkey, Arslantepe and BaÅ...
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Pompeii, tomb relief with a life-size couple emerges in the Necropolis of Porta Sarno

During an archaeological excavation conducted in the Porta Sarno Necropolis, as part of the research project Investigating the Archaeology of Death in Pompeii, by theUniversitat de València in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Pomp...
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Greek Wreckage Museum to be born in Gela: set-up to begin

Work will kick off on Thursday, April 3, at 11 a.m., on the setting up of the Greek Wrecks Museum in Gela (Caltanissetta), which will be built within the Bosco Littorio area. The museum was entirely financed by theRegional Department of Cultural Heri...
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