In the seabed near the archaeological site of Asini inArgolis, Greece, an international team conducted underwater research Oct. 7-11, 2024, uncovering new details about a submerged port structure. The excavations are part of a five-year project launc...
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The Metropolitan Museum in New York is preparing to return a valuable bronze griffin head from the 7th century B.C.E. to Greece : this was announced yesterday at a ceremony held at the American museum, where the Greek minister of culture, Lina Mendon...
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A fascinating new find enriches the archaeological site of Finziade, in Licata, Sicily. During excavation activities conducted in recent weeks, a mask-making die that may depict Medusa emerged. The find was discovered inside the so-called House 18, a...
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In 1945, theArchitectural Press in London published a book of a few pages entitled Bombed Churches as War Memorial. The pamphlet argued that ruined churches damaged by the bombs of war should remain as such so that they could be transformed into visu...
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From Nov. 24, 2023, to May 5, 2024, the Capitoline Museums - Villa Caffarelli in Rome will host for the first time in Italy a monographic exhibition dedicated to Phidias, the greatest Greek sculptor of the classical age linked to the construction and...
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Thursday, August 17, 1972. In an office of the Superintendence of Antiquities of Calabria, in Reggio, the young Roman diver Stefano Mariottini declares that on the afternoon of the previous day he had found"during an underwater dive for fishing purpo...
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The extraordinary story of the Riace Bronzes, the two sculptures of Greek origin, dated to the fifth century B.C. and now housed at the National Archaeological Museum in Reggio Calabria, began on August 16, 1972: on that day, the young Roman amateur ...
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The room of ancient ceramics of the National Archaeological Museum of Tarquinia is one of the passages of the visit itinerary of Palazzo Vitelleschi where the public lingers the longest, given the vastness and importance of the collection of ...
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