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337 cultural assets repatriated to Italy from the United States: officially unveiled today in Rome

337 cultural assets repatriated to Italy from the United States: officially unveiled today in Rome

Presented today, at the Caserma "La Marmora" in Rome, headquarters of the Carabinieri Operational Department for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC), 337 cultural goods returned from the United States at the end of operations concluded between ...
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What was eaten in the South Caucasus 5,000 years ago? An international study reveals

What was eaten in the South Caucasus 5,000 years ago? An international study reveals

International research, in which theUniversity of Bari Aldo Moro took part, has made it possible to reconstruct the dietary habits and culinary techniques of communities belonging to the Kura-Araxes culture, which lived in the South Caucasus about 5...
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Mexico, new monumental Maya site discovered with 80 buildings

Mexico, new monumental Maya site discovered with 80 buildings

TheNational Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), an entity of the Secretariat of Culture of the Government of Mexico, has registered a new Mayan-era archaeological site in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco, in the state of Quintana ...
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Pompeii, artificial intelligence reconstructs for the first time the escape of an eruption victim

Pompeii, artificial intelligence reconstructs for the first time the escape of an eruption victim

The Archaeological Park of Pompeii has employed artificial intelligence tools for the first time to create, in collaboration with theUniversity of Padua-Digital Cultural Heritage Laboratory, a digital reconstruction that is based on data from archaeo...
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Turkey, two-meter-high statue of Athena discovered in Laodicea's Western Theater

Turkey, two-meter-high statue of Athena discovered in Laodicea's Western Theater

In Turkey, at the archaeological site of Laodicea in the Denizli district, a new discovery in the Western Theater complex has brought attention back to the monumental and decorative phases of stage architecture in Roman Asia Minor. As part of the ong...
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A papyrus of the Iliad in a Roman mummy: here's what emerges from discovery in Egypt

A papyrus of the Iliad in a Roman mummy: here's what emerges from discovery in Egypt

A discovery destined to impact studies in papyrology and funerary archaeology comes from the site of al-Bahnasa, Egypt, identified with ancient Oxyrhynchus. The archaeological mission of theUniversity of Barcelona and theInstitute of the Ancient Near...
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Bicentenary of the discovery of the Winged Victory of Brescia: a full calendar of events to celebrate the anniversary

Bicentenary of the discovery of the Winged Victory of Brescia: a full calendar of events to celebrate the anniversary

Brescia is preparing to celebrate the bicentenary of the discovery of the Winged Victory, a masterpiece of the Roman age for its compositional quality, material and state of preservation. It is one of the very rare Roman bronzes from excavations that...
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Egypt, colossal statue attributed to Ramses II discovered in eastern Nile Delta

Egypt, colossal statue attributed to Ramses II discovered in eastern Nile Delta

A monumental statue, most likely attributed to Pharaoh Ramses II, has been found at the Tellel-Faroun archaeological site in the eastern Nile Delta area. The discovery occurred as part of the activities of an Egyptian mission operating under the ausp...
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