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 [β¦]
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 HospederΓa of the Catholic Monarchs (Guesthouse of the Catholic Monarchs), a lost historic building that has nothing to do with the current HospederΓa del Real Monasterio that operates [β¦]
A team of archaeologists has discovered in northern Turkey a settlement of hunter-gatherers who lived in the KoskarlΔ± 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 [β¦]
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, [β¦]
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