The waters surrounding Elba Island have once again yielded evidence of its millennia-old past. A dolium from the Roman era and a presumed shipwreck, still under study, have been located on the seabed of the Tuscan Archipelago during the underwater heritage monitoring operations that the ABAP Soprintendenza for the provinces of Pisa and Livorno has […]
Las aguas que bañan la isla de Elba han vuelto a entregar evidencias de su pasado milenario. Un dolium de época romana y un presumible pecio, aún en fase de estudio, han sido localizados en los fondales del Archipiélago Toscano durante las tareas de vigilancia del patrimonio sumergido que la Soprintendenza ABAP para las provincias […]
Las excavaciones realizadas durante el pasado mes de julio en el conjunto monumental de Guadalupe han sacado a la luz los restos cimentarios de la que fuera Hospedería de los Reyes Católicos, un edificio histórico desaparecido que nada tiene que ver con la actual Hospedería del Real Monasterio que hoy funciona en el mismo enclave. […]
Excavations carried out during the past month of July in the monumental complex of Guadalupe (Extremadura, Spain) have brought to light the foundation remains of the former Hospedería of the Catholic Monarchs (Guesthouse of the Catholic Monarchs), a lost historic building that has nothing to do with the current Hospedería del Real Monasterio that operates […]
A team of archaeologists has discovered in northern Turkey a settlement of hunter-gatherers who lived in the Koskarlı cave approximately 14,000 years ago. The remains found during the first excavation campaign, conducted in 2024, confirm that the site was inhabited by human groups during the Epipaleolithic period, a transitional stage between the Upper Paleolithic and […]
The 2016 discovery of a large mass grave in the ancient cemetery of Phaleron, on the coast of Athens, shocked the archaeological community and the general public. There lay the remains of 79 adult men, many still with metal shackles, arranged in three parallel rows. Since then, researchers have debated who these individuals were: pirates, […]