Archaeology
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This is presumably a followup to the reports from last week adding the Tauric Chersonese to the list of UNESCO Heritage sites. I’m hoping some newspaper will pick this up and have a reporter ask more questions, but nothing doing … from EurekAlert: Chersonesos is an ancient city on the Crimean peninsula, which was founded…
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From Hurriyet: Sakarya Museum has launched excavations in Kaynarca district’s Uzunalan village after a 2,000-year-old damaged sculpture from Roman times was discovered in the area. Archaeologists believe the sculpture is not the only work in the area and that there could be other artifacts in the vicinity, according to a written statement from the director…
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Not sure why this isn’t getting more attention, even in the Italian press. Rosella Lorenzi’s piece for Discovery News seems to be the only English coverage … some excerpts: A key episode of the Punic Wars has emerged from the waters near the small Sicilian island of Pantelleria as archaeologists discovered a cluster of more…
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Not sure why there isn’t anything about this at the IAA site … so far it’s only at Ha’aretz and for some reason they let me behind the paywall, so we’ll strike while the ‘Ferrata’ is hot, as it were: Israeli archaeologists have found ruins they believe are the site of one of the two…
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This one’s getting a pile of coverage in the British press, with a couple of different focuses. The best overall coverage is the Durham University Press release … with a bit of trimming: An 1,800-year-old carved stone head of what is believed to be a Roman god has been unearthed in an ancient rubbish dump.…
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