An unexpected find has caught the attention of the international scientific community: the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (Denver, Colorado) has announced that it has discovered a dinosaur fossil just beneath the parking lot of its headquarter...
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Important archaeological discovery in Brno, Czech Republic, where a fragment of armor from 3,200 years ago, the era in which the Trojan War is conventionally placed, has been found. The fragment was hidden in the ground for more than 3,000 years, and...
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The construction of the T2 section of the Rome Metro Line C, which will connect Piazza Venezia to Viale Mazzini by crossing part of the capital's historic center, opens a new chapter in the complex relationship between contemporary infrastructure and...
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During excavations conducted by the University of Palermo archaeological mission working on theisland of Mozia, in the province of Trapani, under an agreement with the Trapani Cultural Heritage Superintendency, a Greek marble sculpture was found: a f...
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The Comando Carabinieri Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale (Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Command ) has returned to Pompeii Archaeological Park a Roman-era mosaic on a travertine slab, datable between the middle of the last century B.C. and t...
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In Rome, the Crypta Balbi reopens to the public, but not only as an archaeological site: in fact, it becomes an "open construction site," a living laboratory where visitors and scholars can witness live the rediscovery of Rome. The initiative, curate...
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A digital mapping campaign of the shoal of Capo Graziano, one of the most relevant underwater archaeological contexts in the Mediterranean, has begun in Filicudi, in the Aeolian Islands. The project, developed by the Sicilian Region's Superintendence...
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The Taurine Baths become part of the Lazio National Museums Regional Directorate. Located north of Civitavecchia, this extraordinary archaeological complex is one of the most fascinating examples of thermal architecture of antiquity. Frequented since...
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The archaeological site of Peñico, in the Supe Valley in Peru, has been officially unveiled to the public as a new stage in the historical exploration of the preInca Andean civilization. This was announced by the director of the Caral Archaeol...
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As of July 7, the ancient heart of Brescia is back in the spotlight with the start of a major new round of archaeological excavations involving the Roman theater, an integral part of the large Capitolium-foro-theater archaeological complex. The opera...
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Nearly 30 years after the discovery of the submerged remains of the Alexandria Lighthouse, a major archaeological operation is underway: 22 monumental blocks have been brought to the surface from the waters of Egypt's eastern harbor. These are the mo...
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In Trapani, theacropolis of Selinunte is being enriched with new archaeological evidence thanks to a recent excavation campaign that revealed one of the city's most sacred and ancient spaces: theadyton of Temple R. Theadyton was an area of the sacred...
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The Mediterranean returns an archaeological discovery of international significance: a wreck from the Hellenistic-Roman era has been spotted off the coast of Adrasan, in the Kumluca district of Antalya province, Turkey, at a depth of 33 to 46 meters....
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An important discovery in Germany, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU ) in Munich, where a scholar, Professor Enrique Jiménez, professor of Ancient Near Eastern Literature at LMU's Institute of Assyriology, has rediscovered a text...
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For a long time historiography attributed the volcanic nature of theisland of Ischia as the reason for the absence of Roman aristocratic settlements. The anecdote handed down by the Latin writer Strabo about the Emperor Augustus, who would have prefe...
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During an archaeological surveillance operation related to road works in the historic center of the French city of Toul, in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, archaeologists from theInstitut National de Recherches Archéologiques Prév...
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