According to local archaeologists the grave dates back to the 6th or 7th century AD, while the burial style, reflecting the need to optimize space in view of more deaths, might be connected to an epidemic.
This exhibition dedicated to Augustus celebrates two thousand years from his death at Nola (Campania) on the 19th of August 14 AD. Dr. Annalisa Lo Monaco will present it in the framework of the Roman Seminar series.
The texts are "further proof that teaching and learning took place there, and confirm that they belong to the only building so far discovered from antiquity that was certainly a school and showed educational activities.
It seems that the jötunvillur, and probably other -not yet deciphered- codes were often used in the framework of mind games between the Norse or for the writing of everyday messages.
Once the statue reappears, it will be possible to say whether it represents, "the tip of a historical iceberg", a new Riace case or another archaeological scandal.
Α mummy was found covered with a gold plated cartonnage and inscriptions in hieroglyphics including a cartouche of King "Wah Ib Re" -Psamtik I of 26th Dynasty.
Researchers explore the early history of the site and develop a stratigraphy and chronology of changes in the settlement during the transition from the Early Iron Age to the Archaic Period.
Christie's claim that their decision is based on legal uncertainties concerning the collection's ownership status, claiming they a have a responsibility to our buyers to be sure that legal title can transfer to them without issue.
Since its beginning in 2012, the excavation at Karanpura, has brought to light two broad cultural levels, representing the early and the mature Harappan age
On January 29 the American University of Beirut Archaeological museum opened a special exhibition dedicated to the reconstructed identity of a man who lived in Carthage (modern day Tunisia) 2,500 years ago.