Archaeology - Finestre sull'Arte

Rare discovery in Egypt: here is the tomb of the governor's daughter

Important archaeological discovery in Egypt, where an Egyptian-German archaeological mission led by Sohag University and the Free University of Berlin has discovered, inside the tomb of Governor Djefai-Hapi in the Assiut region (which Djefai-Hapi adm...
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Vikings traded ivory with Arctic inhabitants several centuries before Columbus

Vikings traded with the Arctic natives of Greenland several centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in America. The discovery was made byLund University in Sweden, which examined the ancient DNA of a walrus to arrive at these conclusions.An int...
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In the archaeological area of Halaesa Arconidea, discovered remains of one of the largest thermal baths in Sicily

In the archaeological area of Halaesa Arconidea, in Tusa, Messina, two rooms with mosaic floors, a courtyard with porticoed wings and the remains of a thermal facility have emerged. These findings were made as part of the fifth excavation campaign, c...
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The Getty Museum returns a rare bronze burial bed from 530 BC to Turkey.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has returned to Turkey a valuable and rare kline, a bronze burial bed , that illegally left the country in the early 1980s. The object, datable to 530 B.C., was purchased by the Getty in 1982 from a Swiss art d...
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A precious Etruscan ivory stool is being restored in Bologna. Two-day construction site open to the public

The Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Bologna Est, has announced the restoration of an extremely rare Etruscan ivory stool from the 6th century B.C, from an Etruscan tomb discovered in 1887 at the Giardini...
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MiC archaeologist reports on Facebook discovery of ancient statue fragment

It has caused a bit of a stir in the last few hours, a Facebook post published by Santino Alessandro Cugno, an archaeological official of the Ministry of Culture who gave news, practically live, of the discovery of a head of an ancient statue in the ...
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Rome, at Colosseum Park an exhibition on Aphrodite with contemporary Italian and Cypriot artists

In Rome, the Colosseum Archaeological Park is hosting the exhibition Cyprea: The Network of Aphrodite, scheduled from Sept. 26 to Nov. 26, 2024 in the halls of the Roman Forum Museum. Curated by Giorgio Calcara, with the Art Direction of Stefania Pen...
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Israel, Byzantine church of the 6th century AD discovered.

Important discovery in central Israel, in the community forest of Shoham, along the route of the so-called "Shvil Israel" (National Israel Trail), where the archaeological site of Khirbet Tinshemet is hidden. It is here that archaeologists discovered...
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