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Sicily, restoration of the Marausa II and Gela II wrecks kicks off

Sicily, restoration of the Marausa II and Gela II wrecks kicks off

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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Roman villa of Publius Cornelius Dolabella resurfaces in Bacoli: first site on property confiscated from the Camorra

Roman villa of Publius Cornelius Dolabella resurfaces in Bacoli: first site on property confiscated from the Camorra

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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Ancient Ostia goes to town: three Rome hotels welcome three ancient works out of storage and restored

Ancient Ostia goes to town: three Rome hotels welcome three ancient works out of storage and restored

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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Appian Way Archaeological Park, restoration of the Tomb of the Pancras has begun

Appian Way Archaeological Park, restoration of the Tomb of the Pancras has begun

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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The treasure in the mud: the bronzes of San Casciano, history of discovery

The treasure in the mud: the bronzes of San Casciano, history of discovery

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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Aromatic substances from Africa and Asia also in Pompeii's smoke burners: a study

Aromatic substances from Africa and Asia also in Pompeii's smoke burners: a study

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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Greece, discoveries between Kasos and Karpathos: five Byzantine wrecks and anchors identified

Greece, discoveries between Kasos and Karpathos: five Byzantine wrecks and anchors identified

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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Switzerland: Lake Neuchâtel returns perfectly preserved Roman cargo

Switzerland: Lake Neuchâtel returns perfectly preserved Roman cargo

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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The Liver of Piacenza lives again in 3D: Etruscan divination at the click of a button

The Liver of Piacenza lives again in 3D: Etruscan divination at the click of a button

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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Greece, marble fragment possibly linked to Parthenon marbles emerges from 1802 shipwreck

Greece, marble fragment possibly linked to Parthenon marbles emerges from 1802 shipwreck

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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Mexico, Toltec altar discovered with human remains near Tula archaeological site

Mexico, Toltec altar discovered with human remains near Tula archaeological site

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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Galilee, major discoveries on Byzantine-era Christian baptisms

Galilee, major discoveries on Byzantine-era Christian baptisms

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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Egypt, 5th century A.D. building found linked to early phase of Coptic monastic life

Egypt, 5th century A.D. building found linked to early phase of Coptic monastic life

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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Imperial domus discovered in Sepino archaeological park (Campobasso)

Imperial domus discovered in Sepino archaeological park (Campobasso)

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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13,500 years ago in Arabia: discovery of one of the first human communities

13,500 years ago in Arabia: discovery of one of the first human communities

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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Via Etrusca, a digital project to tell the story of the UNESCO sites of Tarquinia and Cerveteri

Via Etrusca, a digital project to tell the story of the UNESCO sites of Tarquinia and Cerveteri

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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