Romania

  • Not quite sure if this is a newspaper, blog, or just a webpage, but it’s an interesting read:  The ‘Tropaeum Traiani’ victory monument in Adamclisi Constanta

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  • From Agerpres: A more than 1,800-year old sealed sarcophagus was discovered by archaeologists in Alba Iulia (394 km north-west of Bucharest) at the site where the city’s water treatment plant will be built. Spokesperson for the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Union Liviu Zgarciu said that “this is the only intact sarcophagus discovered in…

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  • Latest from Rosia Montana

    The controversial mining site is the subject of a  Euronews extended video report … starting at 1:18 we hear of plans from Gold Corp. to turn the Roman galleries (or at least part of them) into an underground museum. They talk to some archaeologists too … then talk about other controversial aspects of the venture…

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  • This one is from Romania Business Insider and is kind of short on specifics, but we should probably get it ‘on record’: Several metal archeological objects and over 280 silver coins were discovered by archeologists on the track of the future Sibiu – Nadlac highway in Romania. One of the discoveries, a small iron replica…

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  • This one appears to be only in English on Xinhua: Romanian archaeologists has discovered, in southeastern county of Caras-Severin, a complex structure estimated to be 2,000 years old belonging to the Roman culture, local media reported on Thursday. The archaeological discovery has a special importance because it was built very early, probably in the autumn…

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