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Strasbourg (France) (AFP) - Italy is allowed to confiscate an ancient Greek bronze fished from the Adriatic in the 1960s and now in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Europe's top rights court ruled Thursday. Representing a nude athlete and known in the United States as "Victorious Youth", the statue vanished following its 1964 discovery until its 1977 purchase by the museum. The Getty has since refused to return it to Italy. The museum appealed to the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after Italy's top tribunal in 2019 upheld an Italian confiscation order for the bronze. Fo...
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Strasbourg (France) (AFP) - Italy is allowed to confiscate an ancient Greek bronze fished from the Adriatic in the 1960s and now in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday. Representing a nude athlete and known in the United States as "Victorious Youth", the statue vanished following its 1964 discovery until its 1977 purchase by the museum. The Getty has since refused to return it to Italy. The museum had appealed to the Strasbourg-based court after Italy's top tribunal in 2019 upheld an Italian confiscation order for the bronze. Rome has been trying ...
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Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Greek helmet from burial mounds in southern Croatia, shedding new light on the history of the Illyrians, a tribal people from the eastern Adriatic and the Balkans. Near the village of Zakotorac on the Peljesac peninsula, approximately 70 kilometres northwest of Dubrovnik, a team of archaeologists, led by Hrvoje Potrebica from the University of Zagreb, uncovered various artefacts, including lavish jewellery and a Greco-Illyrian helmet. The helmet is the second of its kind found in the area, following a similar discovery in 2020. Both items date back to t...
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Archaeologists have unearthed an extraordinary banquet hall, containing stunning frescoes depicting mythological scenes inspired by the Trojan War, among the ruins of Pompeii. It's been described as one of the most striking discoveries ever made at the archaeological site in the south of Italy. Measuring approximately 15 metres long by 6 metres wide, the banquet hall's black-painted walls are adorned with well-preserved frescoes and mosaics. In one depiction, Paris, the prince of Troy, faces the Spartan princess Helen. In another scene, Apollo, the Greek god of music and archery, holds a lyre,...
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Archaeologists from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki recently unearthed a remarkably well-preserved marble head of the Greek god Apollo in the ancient city of Philippi, northwest Greece. Dating back to the 2nd or 3rd century C.E., the head portrays a youthful depiction of Apollo, the Greek god of music and archery, complete with curly hair and his iconic laurel crown. Discovered in late 2023 by a team of 15 students under the leadership of Professor Natalia Poulos, the head was found amidst ongoing excavations in Philippi, a project initiated by the University in the 1960s. Spanish archaeo...
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Linking the Colosseum to the Forum and from the Baths of Caracalla to the Circus Maximus, Rome's new archaeological walkway will be a journey through the city's most famous archaeological sites The mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, and the Italian culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, presented the winning bid for the design of the walkway on Tuesday. Labics Architecture Studio's design was chosen by a jury of experts from among 23 international submissions. The project will cost around 18 million euros Watch Giorgia Orlandi's report in the player above.
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The sophistication of wooden weapons found at Schöningen in central Germany have revolutionized ideas about Palaeolithic, or Old Stone Age, man living some 300,000 years ago. An inventory from the site, which was excavated in the late 1990s, has now revealed how good they were at making other wooden tools. The 187 finds reveal a broad spectrum of woodworking techniques, the group led by Dirk Leder of the Lower Saxony monuments office report in the US journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). The finds, which were made in an open-cast lignite mine, include at least 20 h...
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The sophistication of wooden weapons found at Schöningen in central Germany have revolutionized ideas about Palaeolithic, or Old Stone Age, man living some 300,000 years ago. An inventory from the site, which was excavated in the late 1990s, has now revealed how good they were at making other wooden tools. The 187 finds reveal a broad spectrum of woodworking techniques, the group led by Dirk Leder of the Lower Saxony monuments office report in the US journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). The finds, which were made in an open-cast lignite mine, include at least 20 h...
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Scientists in the UK have found evidence that microplastics are contaminating archaeological soil samples. The discovery has the potential to upend the way historical remains are preserved. Tiny particles of microplastics were discovered seven metres underground in samples dating from the first or early second century. They were first excavated in the 1980s. “This feels like an important moment, confirming what we should have expected: that what were previously thought to be pristine archaeological deposits, ripe for investigation, are in fact contaminated with plastics, and that this includes...
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Unlike most histories of a country, the 'Archaeological Atlas of France' does not include Kings, Presidents, revolutions or great battles. Instead, it recounts thousands of years of human occupation, including enormous changes in France's borders, its climate, population and the way of life of its inhabitants. 100 new maps were created from the findings of thousands of excavations over the past two decades. What was discovered in the soil provided clues about human societies who either buried items themselves, for example in tombs, or simply by the passage of time. Published by Inrap, the Nati...
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