Sicily, restoration and assembly work on the Marausa II and Gela II wrecks was delivered this morning, marking the start of the operational phase of an intervention designed to return the two important finds to public use. The project, promoted by th...
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A Roman-era maritime villa with more than 2,000 years of history, which emerged in the area of Villa Ferretti, has been made visible to the public in Bacoli (Naples). The complex, attributed to the politician and military man Publius Cornelius Dolabe...
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Three works, three hotels, one project: ancient Ostia goes to the city. An initiative designed to make accessible to the general public precious artifacts that have remained hidden for decades in museum deposits and never exhibited.
The project is p...
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As of Wednesday, April 1, 2026, the Tomb of the Pancrazi, located within thearchaeological area of the Via Latina Tombs, will be temporarily closed to visitors to allow restoration work on the frescoes in the burial chamber. The beginning of these wo...
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When the hot water of Tuscany 's hot springs meets clayey mud, sometimes history stops and reveals millennia-old secrets that resurface intact, defying time. It happened in San Casciano dei Bagni, in the province of Siena, where, a few meters from th...
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In Pompeii, not only local plants were used on domestic altars, but also aromatic substances from Africa and Asia. This is revealed by scientific analyses conducted by an international team of scholars, who investigated the materials burned in Roman ...
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A series of wrecks, commercial amphorae, Byzantine anchors and remnants of port infrastructure have been identified in the seabed between the islands of Kasos (Caso) and Karpathos (Scarpanto), in the Dodecanese (archipelago of Greece), during an unde...
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In November 2024, a wreck of exceptional historical interest was identified at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland. The discovery, documented by the Octopus Foundation website, was made as part of the Vulnerable Wrecks of Lake Neuch&aci...
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An independent project has transformed the Piacenza Liver, an Etruscan artifact preserved in Piacenza, into an interactive three-dimensional model. Created by developer Lorenzo Andraghetti and 3D artist Luca Tampieri, the work allows for online explo...
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Systematic underwater archaeological research on the historic wreck of the brig Mentor, conducted by theEphorate of Underwater Antiquities of Greece under the direction of archaeologist Dimitrios Kourkoumelis-Rodostamos, deputy director of the servic...
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A ritual altar with human remains and offerings was discovered near the archaeological zone of Tula, in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, during archaeological salvage work related to the construction of the Mexico City-Querétaro passenger rail li...
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Important discoveries in Israel: on the western shores of Lake Tiberias, also known as the Sea of Galilee, in an area deeply associated with the preaching of Jesus Christ, archaeological discoveries have indeed emerged that shed new light on the bapt...
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The Egyptian archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has unearthed a building dating back to the fifth century AD at Qalaya in Hosh Issa, Beheira governorate, considered part of the early phase of Coptic monastic life in Egypt. E...
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A new phase of archaeological investigations at the site of Saepinum, in theAltilia area in the province of Campobasso, returns a more articulated picture of the urban evolution of the ancient city, among the most relevant contexts of the national mu...
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A study published in the journal Nature titled TheNatufian Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the desert of northern Arabia presents new archaeological evidence of human settlements dating to about 13,500 years ago in northern Arabia. The r...
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A project that integrates cinema, podcasts, digital tools and immersive storytelling to tell the story of the Etruscan civilization and enhance the UNESCO heritages of Tarquinia and Cerveteri. It is calledVia Etrusca and is the initiative conceived a...
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