Archaeology
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I’m pretty sure we’ll hear more about this in the coming days, but just in case we don’t … from the Local: Archaeologists in have discovered fragments of a 2,000-year-old bronze Roman equestrian statue of Emperor Augustus in a stream near Giessen, the Hessian state science ministry has announced. “There has never been a find…
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I’ve been sitting on this one all day waiting for some English source to pick it up, but none seems to be forthcoming (Today’s Zaman … where are you?) … the Italian press is reporting the discovery of fragments of what appears to be a statue of Apollo which would make a statue some four…
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Some interesting finds from a Roman-era Thracian tomb … the first report (August 16) from Novinite: Bulgarian archeologists have found a unique golden wreath in an unnamed mound near the South-East village of Krushare, Sliven District. This has been announced Sunday by the archeologist Diana Dimitrova, who was wife of the late great Bulgarian archeologist,…
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From the BBC: Archaeological excavations at the site of a former plant nursery, set to be developed for housing, have found evidence of Iron Age and Roman use. The dig at the former Unwins Nursery at Impington, Cambridgeshire, found occupation dating from about 100BC with evidence of an Iron Age roundhouse. The site was developed…
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Brief item from Bloomberg: Archaeologists in Cyprus found evidence that an island off the Mediterranean country’s south- west coast was the site of a temple for worshiping Apollo, the ancient Greek god of light, prophecy, music and healing. Excavations led by New York University on Geronisos unearthed fragments of pithoi, or storage vessels probably used…
