From the Italian Press

First order of the day is catching up with a pile of Italian items which may or may not make it to the English press … as always, in no particular order:

A brief item on the discovery of a ‘warrior burial’ dating from the 4th century B.C. at San Severo:

Guerriero dauno salvato dal traffico di reperti archeologici

San Severo, recuperati resti guerriero dauno IV secolo A.C. (Teleradioerre)

Scoperte tombe e reperti archeologici a San Severo, 4 denunce (Il Paese Nuovo)

A 4th/5th century mosaic from Reggio:

«Queste scoperte sono straordinarie» (Gazzetta di Reggio)

A 4th century sarcophagus of a (high rank?) child from Bari:

Archeologia, a Bari Vecchia scoperto il sarcofago di un bambino (La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno)

Remains of a couple of ‘Roman’ houses from the 3rd/2nd century B.C. at San Donaci (not sure if you can call things in this part of Puglia from this time ‘Roman’):

Archeologia: scoperte due case di età romana nelle campagne di San Donaci (TRCB)

Scoperte case di epoca romana nella campagna brindisina (Archeogate)

Plans are afoot to extend the digging area around the Roman Villa at Mantua:

Per la domus dei mosaici altri 400 metri di scavo (Gazzetta di Mantova)

A while back we were told of the sanitation crisis at the site of Pompeii … it appears not much has improved (and emergency services aren’t great either, as a British tourist had a fatal heart attack there):

POMPEI SCAVI, MUORE UN TURISTA: QUESTIONE SANITÀ SI FA URGENTE (Il Mediano)

In the wake of all those ‘theme park’ stories, Ostia feels it should be getting more financial/political attention:

“La Soprintendenza di Ostia Antica deve restare autonoma” (Il Faro)

There’s a new ‘infopoint’ (presumably an information centre) at Herculaneum:

ERCOLANO, APERTO INFOPOINT NEI PRESSI DEL MAV (Il Mediano)

The archaeological museum at Milan has reopened its Greek section with a new exhibition:

“IL MONDO DEI GRECI” La nuova sezione Greca del Museo Archeologico (Comune di Milano)

MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO, APRE NUOVA SEZIONE DEDICATA GRECIA ANTICA (La Repubblica)

Il mondo dei Greci. Inaugura la nuova sezione greca del Museo Archeologico (Mi-Lorenteggio … I think)

I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything about this in the English press yet … the recovery of some 573 items dated to the 4th/5th centuries B.C. (mostly coins) from auctions on eBay from someone in Palermo: