Discovering the past

By further considering two Anatolian samples (35 and 123 individuals) we could estimate that the genetic links between Tuscany and Anatolia date back to at least 5,000 years ago, strongly suggesting that the Etruscan culture developed locally, and not as an immediate consequence of immigration from the Eastern Mediterranean shores.

Roman Road at Culver Farm: Image Source CAP
During early 2011, David Staveley conducted a magnetometer survey in a large field at Bridge Farm, Wellingham, Nr Lewes (TQ43301440)/England on behalf of the Culver Archaeological Project (CAP).

The “Diazoma” Association will undertake the enhancement and restoration of the ancient theatre of Sikyon. For this purpose, a delegation of the Association and its president and former Culture minister Stavros Benos, the vice-regional governor Giorgos Dedes, the mayor of the municipality of Sikyones Spyros Stamatopoulos, and the director of Antiquities of the 37th EPCA Konstantinos Kissas, held a meeting in Corinth.

Archaeologists have unearthed the great ancient monuments of Ostia, but the location of the harbour which supplied Rome with wheat remained to be discovered. Thanks to sedimentary cores, this " lost " harbour has eventually been located northwest of the city of Ostia, on the left bank of the mouth of the Tiber. Stratigraphy has revealed that at its foundation, between the 4th and 2nd century BC, the basin was deeper than 6.5 m, the depth of a seaport.

Part of the paved floor of the orchestra on which Nero once stood as an… actor has recently come to light by archaeologists at the Roman theatre of Nikopolis (Epirus).

The second lecture of this year’s Mycenean Seminar was given by Dr. Antonis Vasilakis, Honorary Director of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and Former Ephor of Antiquities of Kephalonia, Ithaka and Zakynthos. The lecture focused on the large building of the Late Helladic II-III period, which was uncovered in its entirety in 2012, almost down to floor level.

One of the buildings excavated in the Bulgarian Black Sea town of Sozopol appears to have been a temple to Poseidon, going by the discovery of a large and relatively well-preserved altar to the Greek god. This is according to Bozhidar Dimitrov, director of Bulgaria’s National History Museum.

Thousands of images from the Dead Sea scrolls, which date back more than two millennia, were on Tuesday made available to the world on a joint Israel Antiquities Authority and Google website.

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Archaeologists have revealed what could be part of a Byzantine wine-making factory underneath a street in the ancient city of Jaffa.

A major project has been launched to restore and protect one of the world's greatest archaeological sites: the ruins of Pompeii.

Mysteriously, the pyramids were built with circles at their center.

Israeli archaeologists digging under a road in Jerusalem have uncovered the remains of an agricultural community that could yield new information on the lives of residents before and after the rise of the Hasmonean dynasty around 2,200 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Monday.

Archaeologists have unearthed a section of Roman road beneath York Minster. The road was found during construction work for new visitor displays in the medieval minster's undercroft.

Archaeologists in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia have found a basilica said to date from the time of emperor Constantine the Great in the area of the West Gate of Serdica, as the city was known in Roman times.

A series of well-preserved archaeological finds have been discovered during this year’s excavations at what has been identified as the ancient Plotinopolis, situated in the outskirts of modern-day Didymoteicho, northeastern Greece. Plotinopolis was a Roman city founded by the Roman Emperor Traianus, who named it after his wife Plotini.

Conspirators murdered Egyptian king Ramesses III by cutting his throat, concludes a study in the Christmas issue published on the British Medical Journal website.

The golden artefacts date back to the end of the fourth or the beginning of the third century BC and were found in an ancient tomb in Bulgaria.

An international team of experts reported in the Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal that they had found compelling evidence that Pharaoh Ramesses III had been killed in a royal coup, shedding new light into a long-debated murder mystery.

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