What lies beneath one of the most important fortified settlements of Hellenistic Calabria? A study combining archaeology and geophysics has begun to answer this question. Thanks to the application of sophisticated subsurface exploration techniques, an interdisciplinary team from the University of Catania has succeeded in identifying anomalies compatible with buried structures at the Castiglione di […]

The death, which radiocarbon dating places between 3932 and 3653 B.C., surprised an individual at approximately forty weeks of gestation in the rock shelter of Ripari Altí, at 1,100 meters above sea level, within the current Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park. The archaeological context points to the final phases of the Neolithic, a period in which […]

Excavations carried out as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) have brought to light an architectural complex of incalculable value in the heart of Villa Celimontana. Under the supervision of the Special Superintendency of Rome of the Ministry of Culture, the work has uncovered eight rooms belonging to an Imperial-era building whose […]

More than 500 meters beneath the Earth’s surface, a dark and ancient world teems with fungal life on a scale scientists had never imagined. A research team led by the University of Michigan has, for the first time, quantified the abundance of fungi in a deep subsurface site, reaching depths of up to 500 meters, […]

The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the completion of the excavation and restoration works of an ancient pool located in the frigidarium of the monumental complex known as the Hamam Gymnasium, within the ancient city of Tralleis, in the province of Aydın. The newly restored structure has remarkable dimensions: […]

The archaeological excavations currently being carried out at Kapellenberg, near Hofheim am Taunus in Germany, have provided new evidence during this summer campaign regarding the possible location of the central tomb of a large burial mound dating back approximately 6,000 years, as confirmed by the leaders of the research project directed by Professor Detlef Gronenborn […]

Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el marco del Plan Nacional de Recuperación y Resiliencia (PNRR) han sacado a la luz un complejo arquitectónico de incalculable valor en el corazón de la Villa Celimontana. Bajo la supervisión de la Soprintendencia Especial de Roma del Ministerio de Cultura, los trabajos han permitido exhumar ocho estancias de […]

El ministro de Cultura y Turismo de Turquía, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, ha dado a conocer la finalización de los trabajos de excavación y restauración de una antigua piscina ubicada en el frigidarium del conjunto monumental conocido como Hamam Gymnasium, dentro de la ciudad antigua de Trales, en la provincia de Aydın. La estructura recién intervenida […]

El cruce del Potniški center, en pleno corazón de Ljubljana, se ha convertido en estas últimas semanas en un auténtico hervidero de actividad arqueológica. Los trabajos de excavación, que se desarrollan a contrarreloj debido a los plazos de construcción previstos, han permitido documentar un sector extraordinariamente bien conservado del cementerio septentrional de Emona, la colonia […]

In the summer of 15 BC, Emperor Augustus’ two stepsons, Tiberius and Drusus, brought the Central Alps and the Swiss Plateau under Roman control. That campaign concluded decades of efforts to link the Gallic provinces with Illyricum and secure the routes between northern Italy and the Danube. However, while the western and eastern routes of […]

En el verano del año 15 antes de Cristo, los dos hijastros del emperador Augusto, Tiberio y Druso, sometieron los Alpes centrales y la meseta suiza al control de Roma. Aquella campaña cerró décadas de esfuerzos por unir las provincias galas con Iliria y asegurar las rutas entre el norte de Italia y el Danubio. […]

In the heart of the granite massif of the Landes de Lanvaux, in the French department of Morbihan, lies the Neolithic cemetery of Coëby, discovered in 1986. This site, preserved for centuries by the dense forest cover that shielded it from intensive agriculture, contains around 95 megalithic monuments from different periods, from the Neolithic to […]

The construction of the new variant of the A8 highway in the area known as the Albaufstieg, south of Stuttgart (Germany), has uncovered a first-rate archaeological find: a segment of the ancient Roman road that, two millennia ago, structured defense and trade along the Empire’s frontier. The discovery reveals a stretch of approximately ninety meters […]

A team of archaeologists from the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), in collaboration with a specialized company, has confirmed the existence of what is considered the first evidence of prehistoric occupation in the German municipality of Bochum. The discovery took place on a plot previously used for agriculture, located in the Linden neighborhood, where a real estate […]

Research on nuclear explosion residues continues to bring surprises to the scientific community. A research group led by Luca Bindi, from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Florence, has identified a multicomponent metallic alloy previously unknown, which formed during the Hiroshima atomic bombing on August 6, 1945, and that has remained hidden […]

The archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered, during its first excavation campaign at the Tell Nasser archaeological area, a comprehensive complex of bathing facilities dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. The site is located approximately 40 kilometers south of the city of Port Said, 35 kilometers north of the […]

En el corazón del macizo granítico de las Landes de Lanvaux, en el departamento francés de Morbihan, se extiende el cementerio neolítico de Coëby, descubierto en 1986. Este enclave, preservado durante siglos por la densa cubierta forestal que lo ha protegido de la agricultura intensiva, alberga cerca de 95 monumentos megalíticos de distintas épocas, desde […]