Discovery - Finestre sull'Arte

Extraordinary discovery in England: the first mosaic with an episode from the Iliad

It is an extraordinary discovery that has taken place in a field in the East Midlands in England: and this time the adjective "extraordinary" can be used in earnest, because nothing like it had ever been found before in Britain. In fact, archaeologis...
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Queen Mary University researcher discovers two rare manuscript fragments hidden in the Bodleian Library

A researcher at Queen Mary University of London, Tamara Atkin, an expert in English literature and book historian, has discovered two rare manuscript fragments hidden in a 16th-century book in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. They are a fragment telli...
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Valley of the Temples: noble house with intact mosaic floors and Pompeian-style paintings discovered

In the Archaeological Park of the Valley of the Temples, a house with wall paintings and perfectly intact cocciopesto and mosaic flooring has been found in the Hellenistic-Roman Quarter. The discovery was made during the sixth excavation campaign of ...
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After years of excavation, head of goddess Astarte found on the island of Mothia, near a temple dedicated to her

During the latest excavation campaign conducted on the island of Mothia by Rome's "La Sapienza" University coordinated by Professor Lorenzo Nigro, a head of the goddess Astarte/Aphrodite, companion of Baal of Kothon, lord of the sea and underground w...
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