Archaeology
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Tip o’ the pileus to Francesca Tronchin for alerting us to a post at Blogging Pompeii about a new item installed at the National Museum of Naples’ Herculaneum section. For a full description, visit Blogging Pompeii, which includes this image (which is also available in much larger format there): The official description suggests this is…
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Spiegel has an extensive article on Mathias Döring’s efforts to enlighten the world about the Gadara aqueduct which he began following/discovered back in 2004 (I think). Here’s a bit of a tease from the article: The tunnel was discovered by Mathias Döring, a hydromechanics professor in Darmstadt, Germany. Treading on moss-covered steps, he squeezes his…
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Tantalizingly brief item from SANA: The National Excavation and Restoration Expedition uncovered four limestone statues during excavations in a buried cemetery within a private real-estate property in the Palmyra oasis. Two of the statues depict women clad in traditional Palmyran attire consisting of cloaks, long gowns and turban. The other two statues depict men, one…
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Science Daily picks up this item from NWO which originally hit the interweb back in January: Metrological analysis of ancient houses reveals the use of standard models that were ingeniously adapted to suit individual situations. Pre-Roman atrium houses exhibited a striking number of similarities as part of a long Italic building tradition. Dutch researcher Noor…
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Hurriyet relates the state of affairs at the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus … erstwhile wonder, of course: The site of the historic Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, looks more like a zoo these days as ducks, geese, chickens and sheep wander around its unfenced…
