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Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Pep on November 02, 2005, 04:54:40 pm
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/70835

Czech archaeologists excavate Ancient Greek town flattened by Bohemian Celts
[20-09-2005] By Pavla Horakova

For twelve years, Czech archaeologists have been helping their Bulgarian colleagues in the excavations of an Ancient Greek market town in central Bulgaria. The twelve years of work has yielded valuable results, including a hoard of coins, and discovered a surprising connection between the ancient town and the Czech Lands.

The river port of Pistiros was founded in the 5th century BC by a local Thracian ruler. From the excavations we know that wine from Greece was imported to the town in large amphoras. Other pottery was found in and around the remnants of houses and also a hoard of treasure was unearthed from one of the ruins. Professor Jan Bouzek was head of the team.

"Well, it was a hoard of some 561 coins. They were buried just before the Celtic invasion which came there in 278 BC. They were put into a locally made jar, just in a hurry, because the Celts were apparently already attacking the city."

Over a thousand coins were unearthed on the site, minted in various Greek cities and bearing the portraits of many rulers, including Philip II, who caused considerable damage to Pistiros around the year 345 BC. The city was destroyed by Celtic invaders some fifty years later and never fully recovered. Interestingly, some of the attackers apparently came from what is now the Czech Republic.

"In the destruction we found several Celtic weapons which were partly burnt and most of them are not well preserved with the exception of one arrowhead. But we found in the ruins that at the time of the looting of the city they lost one of the typical fibulae (buckles) of the so-called Duchcov type which were especially well-known from a great hoard in Duchcov and which must have been made in this country. Some of the Celts from these parts apparently participated because they were also one of the four tribes which founded the kingdom of Galatia. They were Celts living in the northern part of this country."

The fruits of the 12-year Czech-Bulgarian joint research were first presented to the archaeological community last week in Prague at the Third International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities. As Professor Jan Bouzek says the beginnings of Czech-Bulgarian cooperation in archaeology date back to the 19th century.

"Well, the history is much longer. Both my professors who did archaeology epigraphy were working in Bulgaria. And 80 percent of the founders of Bulgarian archaeology were the Czechs. They were the Skorpil family, Professor Vaclav Dobrusky - who was actually the first person who had any knowledge of our site. Vaclav Dobrusky was the founder of the Bulgarian National Archaeological Museum and he discovered the first inscription on the [Pistiros] site. It was long forgotten and only discovered much later by my friend Mieczyslaw Domaradski who was Polish-born but lived and worked in Bulgaria. He really discovered the city much later."


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Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: GMoneti on November 24, 2005, 04:26:27 pm
Here is something interesting regarding law and trade relations between Thracians and Greeks in Pistiros:

http://www.apaclassics.org/AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/Demetriou.html

Regarding the Czech article, it seems very unlikely that in this region wine was imported from Greece, as the area around Pistiros was (and still is) ideal for vineyards and wine was a very important product for the Thracians(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistiros).  Dionysus, the god of wine, was a Thracian deity, adopted by the Greeks and the Romans. 

Georgi
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on December 06, 2005, 02:25:01 am
<<After the fall of the Roman Empire, the art of brick manufacturing was lost in most of Europe, surviving only in Italy itself. Central Europe didn't rediscover the skill until the 18th century and England until the 1100s .>>

I've a feeling that the art reached Britain in the late 1400's. There's a very early brick castle at Kirby Muxloe near Leicester which was abandoned half-built when its owner had his head amputated by Richard III, but I haven't come across anything earlier. But I could be wrong.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: LordBest on January 29, 2006, 02:48:49 am
http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,1694257,00.html

The great ports and docks of Constantinople found. Not a very good article to be honest, but its a find of immense importance. Not only that, they have found the first ever Byzantine military naval vessal ever recovered, with its Greek fire mechanisms intact, according to some preliminary reports. That and five other ships, some of which may also be military vessals. If its all the archaeologists working on it say its one of the most important finds in Late Roman/Byzantine archaeology in the last century.
                                             LordBest. 8)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Pscipio on January 29, 2006, 02:52:13 am
with its Greek fire mechanisms intact, according to some preliminary reports.

That would be a sensation, indeed!

Lars
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: GMoneti on February 02, 2006, 08:08:31 pm
The remains of an ancient Greek cargo ship that sank more than 2,300 years ago have been uncovered with a deep-sea robot, archaeologists announced today.

The ship was carrying hundreds of ceramic jars of wine and olive oil and went down off Chios and the Oinoussai islands in the eastern Aegean Sea sometime around 350 B.C.

 Archeologists speculate that a fire or rough weather may have sunk the ship. The wreckage was found submerged beneath 200 feet (60 meters) of water.

 The researchers hope that the shipwreck will provide clues about the trade network that existed between the ancient Greek and their trading partners.

...

http://www.livescience.com/history/060202_greek_shipwreck.html

Georgi
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Ecgþeow on February 09, 2006, 02:36:12 pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11252094/


First new tomb discovered in the Valley of the Kings since the 1922 Tutankhamun discovery.

EDIT: sorry, werong link, I fixed it
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: AlexB on February 12, 2006, 08:32:11 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4707014.stm

Hellenistic tomb found in Pella!
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Jochen on March 07, 2006, 06:09:02 am
<<After the fall of the Roman Empire, the art of brick manufacturing was lost in most of Europe, surviving only in Italy itself. Central Europe didn't rediscover the skill until the 18th century and England until the 1100s .>>

I've a feeling that the art reached Britain in the late 1400's. There's a very early brick castle at Kirby Muxloe near Leicester which was abandoned half-built when its owner had his head amputated by Richard III, but I haven't come across anything earlier. But I could be wrong.

Sorry, I have read this post but now. The art of brick making was known in Norther Germany, Polen, Scandinavia and the Baltic provinces from the beginning of the 12th century. A stile was created called 'Backsteingotik' something like 'Brick Gothic' which dominates the cities of the Hansa from Lübeck to Riga.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backsteingotik

Best regards
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: rjohara on May 04, 2006, 03:09:19 pm
I know it's before the time of coins, but it's interesting nevertheless....

This week's issue of Science (28 April 2006) carries two papers and a news story on the dating of early Aegean civilizations through radiocarbon. There has been a controversy (the story says) centering on the date of the eruption of Thera (modern Santorini) which may have been responsible for the destruction of Minoan civilization. (I think the tsunami angle is most likely myself -- imagine what an event like the recent Indonesian tsunami would have done to a bronze-age culture living on the shoreline.)

The controversy has been between those who would put the eruption of Thera in the 1600s BC, and those who would place it a century later in the 1500s. New radiocarbon dating puts the reuption within the 1627-1600 BC range. The Egyptologists, who favor the later dating, are not amused. They had tended to see the Minoan zenith as correlated with the New Kingdom zenith in the 1500s. The new dates suggest that the Minoan zenith may have been coincident with the less creative Hyksos culture in Egypt, thought to have been derived from Anatolia (where there was also some Minoan influence).
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: whitetd49 on May 04, 2006, 04:22:41 pm
This one is going to ripple through archeology.  It also roughly corresponds to the decline of Mycaenae.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Retrospectator on June 19, 2006, 07:45:23 am
2000 Roman coins discovered near Carmarthen, Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/5089504.stm
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: PLINIUS on June 19, 2006, 04:23:28 pm
Archeologists say it's likely Alexander the Great tomb found in Alexandria

(in italian)
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/fc?cmd=art&codid=20.0.1943392189&chId=30&artType=Articolo&DocRulesView=Libero
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: *Alex on July 10, 2006, 12:09:37 pm
Story and picture in case the link goes down.

Alex.

  A unique ancient statue of the goddess Artemis, considered one of the most exquisite artifacts found in the Thessaly province of central Greece, was unearthed by archaeologists at the site of an ancient theater near the modern city of Larissa, where restoration works are underway.
 The 80cm-tall fragment of the statue -- only the torso was found -- depicts Artemis, in Greek mythology the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon, the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. The artifact is tentatively dated back to the mid 1st Century BC. Athanassios Tzafalias, the head of the search team in Larissa said the original statue measured more than 1,60m and he held out hopes of finding other parts of the statue as the dig goes on.




Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Numerianus on August 05, 2006, 04:58:17 am
Theseus ring is authentic
A gold ring dating from the 15th century BC which was allegedly found near the Acropolis during building work some 60 years ago is a genuine artifact, Greece’s Central Archaeological Council (KAS) said yesterday.

Experts spent six months studying the signet ring, which weighs some 20 grams, amid fears that it was a fake. The artifact has become known as the “Theseus ring” as it has an engraving of a leaping bull, recalling the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

The Culture Ministry confirmed yesterday that the majority of experts thought the ring was genuine and, as a result, its owner will be paid 75,000 euros so that the ancient piece of jewelry can be put on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

The owner of the ring said it was discovered by her father-in-law but he kept it hidden until his death.
 
 
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100014_03/08/2006_72807
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Numerianus on August 07, 2006, 03:23:51 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5251266.stm
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: irish on August 25, 2006, 01:11:52 pm
http://www.bosnianpyramid.com/index_files/News.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Bohemond on August 30, 2006, 12:03:06 pm
Ancient gold coins found in Kyrgyz mountain lake
 16:34 | 30/ 08/ 2006
   
 
BISHKEK, August 30 (RIA Novosti) - Possibly the world's most ancient gold coin has been discovered in a high mountain lake in Kyrgyzstan, the chief of an archeological expedition said Wednesday.
Academic Vladimir Ploskikh said an expedition from the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University found a 70-gram octagonal gold artifact on the northern side of Lake Issuk-Kul.
"This is probably the earliest form of metal money found in Central Asia, and may have served as an archetype for later gold coins," he said. "If this [hypothesis] is confirmed, the find will have a unique worldwide historical and cultural significance as a prototype for gold money."
The archeologists also recovered from the lake bronze daggers, sickles and hatchets, as well as household implements and jewelry dating back to approximately 1,000 BC.
Ploskikh said the finds could mark a "new page in history."

Link: http://en.rian.ru/world/20060830/53329092.html

Sadly no pic available

Bohemond  ;)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on August 30, 2006, 04:08:13 pm
It claims that the find is 'possibly the world's most ancient gold coin' but there's no date given, which you'd surely expect even in a popular article. Then what makes it a coin, rather than some other form of artefact?
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: TLP on September 18, 2006, 05:25:38 pm
For day by day news I found Archaeology.org....

(also a good magazine)

http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/index.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: azelismia on October 08, 2006, 12:43:40 am
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

this is the page I follow daily. It seems to be a bit more up to date than the archaeology magazine site.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Retrospectator on October 10, 2006, 11:32:40 am
This time with a video!

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/video/0,47-0@2-3246,54-821975@51-821976,0.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: awl on October 20, 2006, 08:49:12 pm
http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2005/september/ambush.php?page=4
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Bohemond on November 14, 2006, 01:36:04 pm
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch archeologists have discovered an estimated 200 silver Roman coins, several jewels, an armband and a ring hidden in a clay pot, the city overseeing the dig said Monday.
 
The city of Cuijk, near the Maas river, 80 miles southeast of Amsterdam, said archeologists found the cache while excavating in an area where new housing is to be built.
So far, most of the treasure in the pot has only been examined with x-rays.
The first coin to be removed and cleaned bears the emblem of the eccentric Roman emperor Elagabalus, who reigned from 218-222 A.D., the city said.
"During the uncovering of the pot, it became apparent that it was placed precisely at the spot where a bolt of lighting struck," a statement by the city said. "Further study will have to determine whether ... the pot could have been buried as an offering, or if the inhabitants by chance had left these valuables hidden in this spot for fear of theft."
The area, known as "De Nielt," shows signs of Stone Age settlements. Romans first arrived in the area under Julius Caesar around 53 B.C., but the Netherlands south of the Rhine river wasn't firmly under Roman control until nearly a century later.
The people who lived there would likely have belonged to the Dutch tribe known as the Batavians. By the end of the third century A.D., De Nielt was colonized by German tribes from outside the empire — or at least parts of the settlement adopted the German building style.
The area fell into disuse, was inhabited again briefly in the early Middle Ages, and was again abandoned.
The company leading the dig, Becker & Van de Graaf, said its field excavation of the Roman-era settlement was complete, and it expects the remaining work will take about three months

[BROKEN LINK REMOVE BY ADMIN]

Bohemond  ;)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Jochen on December 02, 2006, 08:57:47 am
Hi Jim!

Your article is about the Antikythera mechanism. We have a long thread about that. Please take a look at https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=22906.0

best regards
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on December 02, 2006, 11:35:49 am
The Antikythera Mechanism will be explored in an episode of Unearthing Mysteries on BBC Radio 4 on 12 December. You will be able to listen via the internet at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Cleisthenes on December 03, 2006, 12:56:50 am
Hi Jim!

Your article is about the Antikythera mechanism. We have a long thread about that. Please take a look at https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=22906.0

best regards

Thank you, Jochen! :)
Regards, Jim
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Numerianus on December 11, 2006, 09:22:23 am
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/arts/design/11arti.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: PeterD on December 11, 2006, 09:53:21 am
"After nearly a year of negotiations, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has agreed in principle to return a rare fourth-century B.C. gold funerary wreath to Greece that cultural officials there contend was illegally removed from Greek soil, an expert briefed on the talks said Sunday."

I suppose if it has been proved that this item has been illegally excavated in Greece, then the Greeks have some claim over it, but I can't help thinking that it's a case of "It's ours and we want it back", rather than a genuine historical or cultural concern. As for Italy demanding art objects back from museums, they have so much material they can't even look after what they already have.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Jochen on December 11, 2006, 11:11:07 am
Hi!

The University of Heidelberg/Germany has given back to Greece a small part of the Parthenon sculptures. It is a part of the foot which is red encircled on the pic. This part came to Germany about AD 1871 as a souvenir from a tourist. At that time it was not unusual to pick up small stones from the Acropolis to take them at home. This part has a size of about 7x11cm.

Most oft the Parthenon sculptures are in the British Museum and the Greek government will have them back. There are heavy reconstructions on the Acropolis today

You may look at http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/news06/2601akro.html (German only)
 
Best regards
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: LordBest on December 11, 2006, 12:43:48 pm
The return of the Parthenon marbles is really the only repatraition request currently up for debate that I believe is justified, but I dont believe it should set a precedent for other requests. The Greeks atleast can look after the sculptures.
                                                             LordBest. 8)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: GMoneti on February 06, 2007, 02:49:55 pm
Eternal embrace? Couple still hugging 5,000 years on.


ROME (Reuters) - Call it the eternal embrace.

 Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, hugging each other.

"It's an extraordinary case," said Elena Menotti, who led the team on their dig near the northern city of Mantova.

"There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging -- and they really are hugging."

Menotti said she believed the two, almost certainly a man and a woman although that needs to be confirmed, died young because their teeth were mostly intact and not worn down.

"I must say that when we discovered it, we all became very excited. I've been doing this job for 25 years. I've done digs at Pompeii, all the famous sites," she told Reuters.

"But I've never been so moved because this is the discovery of something special."

A laboratory will now try to determine the couple's age at the time of death and how long they had been buried.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070206/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_embrace;_ylt=ApIs2f3xTRf3Vq9LCFaQ6yJ0bBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

I hope they loved each other truly.  ;D

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: PeterD on March 10, 2007, 07:06:56 am
This story from todays Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/10/nhill10.xml

"Evidence of a Roman sacred site has been discovered at the foot of a man-made hill created thousands of years before the Romans arrived in Britain, it was announced yesterday.

English Heritage called the uncovering of the settlement a "startling discovery", and all the more so because it lies next to 5,000-year-old Silbury hill, which at 130ft is Europe's largest man-made prehistoric monument. The original purpose and use of the Neolithic hill, which took an estimated 20 million man hours to make, still mystifies archaeologists.

Yesterday's disclosure indicates that a Roman community was equally taken with the Wiltshire hill and established a sacred settlement in its shadow, some 3,000 years after it was created.

The discovery of a settlement the size of 24 football pitches is "quite unexpected" said Dr Amanda Chadburn, an English Heritage archaeologist and team leader. "Although there were hints - the odd Roman coin kicking around - that the Romans were doing something around there we did not know what. This is an important Roman settlement." The site straddled the Roman road from London to Bath where it crossed the Winterbourne River.

But it was more than just a way station for weary travellers. The Romans were as intrigued by Silbury as people are today, and there is even a tantalising hint of a temple. "There are a lot of legends about it being built by the devil and you wonder what the Romans thought about it," said Dr Chadburn."

I have a piece on Silbury Hill on my web-site if anyone's interested: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/historia/sites/silbury/silbury.htm
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Kopperkid on June 10, 2007, 12:48:11 am
I'm heading to the Netherlands on June 24 for a week. I wasn't able to get the link to work. Does any have a newer link or know where the site is located?

Regards,
Kopperkid
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: bruce61813 on June 11, 2007, 03:14:33 pm
http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/ Check this out, it is worth the time, and it will be wonderful when completed. there are some related news stories.

Bruce
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Heliodromus on June 11, 2007, 05:12:44 pm
Certainly looks promising. What'd be cool would be if they built a user interface that let you walk though the model - to see what it felt like to walk though some of the famous areas. Maybe they could turn in into a virtual world like second life where people could go and dress/act in period to bring it to life.

I think I may have spotted one minor omission - in the last still image "Rome Macro" the Colossus Neronis (restyled as Sol) should, I think, still be there at this date (320 AD) - standing inbetween the temple of Romae Aeternae / Venus and the Colosseum. At 120' tall it'd certainly be visible at this scale - much taller than the Arch of Constantine. AFAIK the statue was still there until quite late.

Ben
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: bruce61813 on June 12, 2007, 11:46:43 am
I believe that the end goal would be to make it allow a "walk through" , but that will take a lot more work and money. This is a lot of work.

Bruce
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Numerianus on June 18, 2007, 01:06:09 pm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2105308,00.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: slokind on June 18, 2007, 03:07:18 pm
Delighted to hear it!  That is what I have thought and taught most of my life: the archaeological and linguistic (slight as they are) evidences add up to a major immigration, colonization of Anatolians, not just a tiny ruling group that came just once or twice.  So I am not surprised, but the evidence of both patrilineal and matrilineal DNA independently is most welcome.
Pat L.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Retrospectator on June 19, 2007, 05:23:29 am
'But the latest conclusions may add weight to a rival, apparently more fanciful, theory that links their name to Troy, the "city of towers" and a part of the Lydian empire. The most likely date for the fall of Troy, as described by Homer, is between 1250 and 1200 BC.'

Wouldn't that be ironic, I can hear Virgil turning in his grave; Aeneas founded Etruria!!! Hehe.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Vitruvius on June 19, 2007, 10:44:51 pm
Good Evening Everyone,

I just wanted to share a site that shows what the Roman Forum may have looked like in 179 A.D.  It shows a model of the Forum created by Robert Garbisch in great detail.  Nothing is better than the real thing, but this kind of gives you a flavor for the grandeur of it in ancient times.  Enjoy!

http://home.surewest.net/fifi/index50.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Cleisthenes on June 20, 2007, 07:28:32 am
Vitruvius,

Thank you for introducing me to this very interesting site.

Jim
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Potator II on June 20, 2007, 03:51:13 pm
Hi Vitruvius,

That's amzing, thanks for sharing

Regards
Potator
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Ecgþeow on June 21, 2007, 02:47:12 am
Thank you for this!  I had no idea there was a website with all these pictures.  I currently attend Brandeis, and several of the professors regularly use this model as a tool for teaching students about Roman art, archaeology and history.  In my first year at Brandeis I have been taken to see it three different times by professors, and I often pass by it while in the library.  If you are ever on the Brandeis campus, it is definitely worth taking a look at.  With so little of it remaining today in the actual Forum, it is a great tool to have this model.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Numerianus on June 23, 2007, 02:55:32 am
http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/20070623.FIG000000756_une_mysterieuse_pratique_funeraire_en_gaule_romaine.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: wandigeaux (1940 - 2010) on June 23, 2007, 03:16:45 pm
Wow!  What a mystery this is.  Reminds me of steppe burial practices, a little (if only by the presence of horses), but it is too early for the hordes of Alans and other Iranian splinter groups later settled in Gaul by the authorities, and too slapdash in practice.  All the mandibles missing!  This will give me something to think about in the watches of the night for a long time, and thanks for calling it to our attention.  George Spradling
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: maridvnvm on June 23, 2007, 03:25:37 pm
A Roman road has been found by workers building a controversial £840m natural gas pipeline across Wales.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/6760363.stm

Regards,
Martin
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: basemetal on June 26, 2007, 07:57:00 pm
Interesting:
3rd Century Man Preserved in Salt:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/22/saltman_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070622110000&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: whitetd49 on June 26, 2007, 08:04:05 pm
Definitely worth a picture.  Assuming the individual was a slave, I find it a fascinating peek into the past.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: LordBest on June 27, 2007, 01:21:53 am
Body of an assumed Inca found in Norway:
http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=87357

Gladiator myth-busting:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/26/gladiator_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070626100030
   
                                                            LordBest. 8)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: septimus on July 06, 2007, 07:20:42 am
Recent find in Nemausus:
http://www.inrap.fr/site/fr/page.php?id=89&p=album-photo-communique&id_communique=149#
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Numerianus on July 11, 2007, 04:48:21 am
 Tiny tablet provides proof for Old Testament:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/11/ntablet111.xml
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on July 12, 2007, 12:11:30 pm
Two Roman coins found on the beach of the Scottish Island of North Uist:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6895653.stm

Here is a picture of one of them:

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: sarah s2 on July 16, 2007, 10:23:41 pm
Rare Mycenaean grave unearthed

ATHENS (Reuters) - Roadworks in southern Greece have unearthed a rare Mycenaean grave thought to be well over 3,000 years old and containing important burial offerings including a gold chalice, the culture ministry said on Monday.

Archaeologists said it appeared to be the grave of a local military official and was the first time a single grave had been found with such a combination of objects -- including a bronze and gold sword, and a bronze spear point, knife and pot.

Pottery found in the grave dated it to around 1,200 BC.

"It included one dead body in a fetal position, whose bones had disintegrated," the ministry said in a statement. "But the burial offerings are in very good condition and especially important."

The Bronze Age grave, found near the town of Agrinio in the Peloponnese, measures 1.48 by 0.78 meters (yards) and is made with limestone slabs.

The Mycenaean civilization flourished from 1600 to 1100 BC, building great walled cities, such as Mycenae, across the Peloponnese. Homer's Iliad tells of the conquest of Troy by the Mycenaean kings.

"This is a very important discovery because it gives us clues as to the social and military dominance enjoyed by the people of this era," said archaeologist Maria Gatsi, in charge of excavations in the area.

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on July 19, 2007, 07:52:09 am
A 10th century Viking hoard has been found by metal detectorists in Yorkshire. The hoard contains 617 silver coins and 65 other objects, including a gold arm-ring and a gilt silver vessel.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/6906107.stm
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: sarah s2 on July 19, 2007, 07:11:51 pm
Archaeologists dig up Roman bath complex

ROME - Archaeologists said Thursday they have partly dug up a second-century bath complex believed to be part of the vast, luxurious residence of a wealthy Roman.

The two-story complex, which extends for at least 5 acres, includes exceptionally well-preserved decorated hot rooms, vaults, changing rooms, marble latrines and an underground room where slaves lit the fire to warm the baths.

Statues and water cascades decorated the interiors, American archaeologist Darius A. Arya, the head of the excavation, said Thursday during a tour of the digs with The Associated Press. Only pedestals and fragments have been recovered.

Arya spoke as students and experts were brushing off earth and dust from ancient marbles, mosaic floors and a rudimentary heating system, made of pipes that channeled hot air throughout the complex.

"The Romans had more leisure time than other people, and it's here in the baths that they typically spent their time," Arya said. "Because you could eat well, you could get a massage, you could have sex, you could gossip, you could play your games, you could talk about politics — you could spend the whole day here."

However, he added, "to have a bath complex of this size, this scale, it's very unusual."

The complex is believed to be part of a multiple-story villa that belonged to the Roman equivalent of a billionaire of today, a man called Quintus Servilius Pudens who was friends with Emperor Hadrian, Arya said. It is not clear if the baths were open to the public or reserved to distinguished guests of the owner.

"These people lived a magnificent existence and were able to provide entertainment," to others, said Arya, who is also a professor at the American Institute for Roman Culture.

Excavations at the Villa delle Vignacce park lasted a total of 10 weeks, and it is planned to continue, he said. Future decisions, including whether the site will be opened to the public, are still to be made.

Ancient Romans put a great deal of emphasis on bathing, turning the art of the soak into a ritual.

Meeting at communal bath houses, they would go through a series of rooms of alternating temperatures at a leisurely pace, dipping themselves in hot and cold baths. It was a social event, but also a way to purify their bodies of toxins and a form of relaxation
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on July 20, 2007, 02:57:11 am
More pictures of the Viking hoard mentioned above:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6906482.stm
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Circus_Maximus on July 20, 2007, 11:55:23 am
the odyssey of the odyssey




http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3396899
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Noah on July 21, 2007, 02:50:56 pm
Check out this aol link.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/viking-treasure-hoard-found-in-england/20070721103609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

Best, Noah
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Circus_Maximus on August 15, 2007, 11:47:19 am
an intact etruscan tomb:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=intact-2000-year-old-etru&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: LordBest on September 05, 2007, 11:38:23 pm
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/13694
Roman ship found in 'near immaculate' condition.
                                                                         LordBest. 8)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Circus_Maximus on October 10, 2007, 05:28:45 pm
Ancient Roman Coins Found in Portugal
               
 
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 10, 2007
Filed at 5:03 p.m. ET

LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Archaeologists excavating a site in northeastern Portugal discovered 4,500 ancient Roman coins tucked away inside a wall.

The bundle of 4,526 copper and bronze coins was hidden inside the wall of a 4th-century blacksmith's home, said Antonio Sa Coixao, who is leading the excavation in Coriscada.

The sack holding the coins appeared to have disintegrated, he said.

''It looks like someone was trying to hide them but they never went back to get them,'' Sa Coixao said Wednesday.

Archaeologists excavating the site -- believed to be an ancient Roman village -- came across the coins Friday. Sa Coixao said he planned to send the coins to the University of Lyon, in France, to be cleaned and catalogued.

In addition to the blacksmith's home, the excavation site, about 180 miles from Lisbon, includes a spa and a large house with heated rooms and colorful mosaics. The dig is expected to last several years.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: awl on October 10, 2007, 09:49:17 pm
Wow, that is quite a hoard. Too bad there isn't a picture or a description of the coins.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Cleisthenes on November 01, 2007, 09:47:11 pm
This is an interesting story about ancient ships discovered beneath one of Pisa's train stations:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/67475?&GT1=10547

Jim
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Retrospectator on November 20, 2007, 12:12:14 pm
First Roman tombstone discovered in Scotland for more than 170 years is believed to be that of a member of the then governor's bodyguard :

http://www.nms.ac.uk/pressrelease_roman_tombstone_1107.aspx
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: jon gress on December 04, 2007, 05:14:13 pm
Wooden throne at Herculaneum
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071204/sc_nm/italy_throne_dc;_ylt=AlRZEZCmFSw92d7qlb4Y0JADW7oF
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: slokind on December 04, 2007, 11:54:10 pm
Winged Bacchic babies, just as I said in my epitome on Wings (newest page on my web site).  And dated terminus ante quem by Vesuvius, and in just such an environment as cherished such conceits.  Pat L.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Retrospectator on December 07, 2007, 11:12:33 am
Roman glue discovered in Germany:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3226417.ece
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: PeterD on December 07, 2007, 12:17:30 pm
Roman dinner set found in London

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/06/nroman106.xml
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Pep on February 25, 2008, 09:20:25 am
Gaulish coin hoard is France's biggest ever

http://www.french-news.com/content/view/2549/52/lang,en/

Kevin  :)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: LordBest on April 03, 2008, 05:54:47 am
Circus Maximus to be excavated and 'restored':
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/after-1500-years-as-a-ruin-gladiators-stadium-to-be-restored-804002.html
                                                                    LordBest. 8)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: septimus on April 11, 2008, 07:34:20 am
The restoration of a roman mosaic in Nîmes (Nemausus):
http://www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Decouvrir/Multimedias/Toutes_les_decouvertes/p-2014-A_Nimes_restauration_d_une_mosaique_romaine.htm
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: *Alex on April 11, 2008, 07:48:45 am
What a wonderful discovery. The quality of workmanship is superb.

Alex.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: LordBest on April 28, 2008, 12:07:55 am
http://www.expatica.com/de/articles/news/Emperor-Nero_s-gate-discovered-in-Cologne--.html
Cologne city gate uncovered. Sounds impressive, it would be nice to see pictures.
                                                                   LordBest. 8)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: 4to2CentBCphilia on May 28, 2008, 08:54:55 am
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/05/27/vatican.pagan.tomb.ap/index.html

Of course this is not the only necropolis discovered under Vatican City

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=16977

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on May 28, 2008, 05:20:27 pm
'Sacred archaeologists'?
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Enodia on May 29, 2008, 03:29:04 am
what a quilt it would make!
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: The Apostle on June 09, 2008, 10:23:54 pm
Ancient laborer burial ground excavated near Rome

First-century burial grounds near Rome's main airport are yielding a rare look into how ancient longshoremen and other manual workers did backbreaking jobs, archaeologists said Monday.

The necropolis near the town of Ponte Galeria came to light last year when customs police noticed a clandestine dig by grave robbers seeking valuable ancient artifacts, Rome's archaeology office said.

Most of the 300 skeletons unearthed were male, and many of them showed signs of years of heavy work: joint and tendon inflammation, compressed vertebrae, hernias and spinal problems, archaeologists said. Sandy sediment helped preserve the remains well.

Judging by the condition of the skeletons, archaeologists concluded that the men likely carried loads on their backs at a nearby port during the early years of Imperial Rome, said Gabriella Gatto, a spokeswoman for the archaeology office.

Many ailments "seem to hark back to work as laborers, in transport and carrying of heavy loads, in an especially humid environment, circumstances that makes one think of the burial of individuals who worked in port areas of the city," the office said in a statement.

Finding a necropolis near ancient Rome is not rare, but most of them have been the burial grounds of the privileged classes. So the Ponte Galeria find is enlightening experts how the ancient lower class lived.

Also excavated was a skeleton of a man whose lower jaw was fused to his upper jaw.

Study indicated "how for all of his life this individual was fed, likely through the care of his family" with liquids or semisolids "introduced through a hole made through his teeth," the archaeology statement said.

The man lived into his 30s, a decent age at the time. Experts took that as evidence that the lower classes cared for the disabled.

Artifacts found in the necropolis were simple ones, including lanterns to guide the dead to their next life, Gatto said. One ceramic-and-glass lantern was decorated with a grape harvest scene.

The dig yielded a glimpse into a working-class community that was "humble and marked by strong ties and solidarity among its members," the statement said.

The necropolis was one of the most extensive ones to be excavated near Rome in recent years, archaeologists said.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: slokind on February 14, 2009, 12:34:41 am
A hoard of vLRBC found by a happy detectorist:
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Rare-Roman-coins-lifetime/article-692591-detail/article.html
Pat L.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: berserkrro on May 27, 2009, 02:19:54 am
101 - 102 campain Trajan's palace discovered in Romania:
http://silverscorpio.com/roman-emperor-trajans-palace-discovered-in-romania/
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Numerianus on June 09, 2009, 04:10:00 am
Return of stolen antiquities:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hUMhVrIjNu323j5ySXngFZXxryxgD98MQLSG0
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Retrospectator on July 15, 2009, 04:51:02 am
There you go, DPAA (Deep Proton Activation Analysis), that's what you need to treat your uncleaneds  ;) .

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-07-14_114383620.html

A relevant photo from the actual hoard in question would have been nice. ::)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Paleologo on July 15, 2009, 09:17:50 am
Sorry, you won't be able to clean your uncleaneds using DPAA. You can only get an idea of its silver content:

http://www.lns.infn.it/index.php?option=com_jombib&task=showbib&id=4188&return=index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_jombib%26amp%3Bcatid%3D70&Itemid=91

Of course, you can still experiment its use as a cleaning tool. The only problem is to set up a nuclear accelerator in your garage. Early ones were not so big in the end  ;D

(below a picture of ADA nuclear accelerator at Frascati National Laboratories, 1961)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Retrospectator on July 15, 2009, 11:07:41 am
Of course, you can still experiment its use as a cleaning tool. The only problem is to set up a nuclear accelerator in your garage. Early ones were not so big in the end  ;D

In that case, better just use it to analyse then. ::)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 02, 2010, 02:58:06 am
Roman Lantern Discovery by Metal Detectorist in Suffolk, UK:

http://heritage-key.com/blogs/prad/roman-lantern-discovery-metal-detectorist-sheds-light-suffolks-ancient-history
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: *Alex on September 02, 2010, 10:20:07 am
Roman Lantern Discovery by Metal Detectorist in Suffolk, UK:

http://heritage-key.com/blogs/prad/roman-lantern-discovery-metal-detectorist-sheds-light-suffolks-ancient-history

Thanks Xenophon,

Here is the BBC report on the find.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-11161686

Alex.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 29, 2010, 10:33:47 am
Temple of Mithras found in Angers, France:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/ancient-sanctuary-dedicated-to-mithras-discovered-in-france-2092850.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: gordian_guy on October 23, 2010, 07:43:12 am


The residence of Sextus Tarquinius, the prince who sparked the revolt that led to the foundation of the Roman Republic, may have been found.

http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/prince-palace-rome.html?ref=nf

c.rhodes
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Optimo Principi on December 14, 2010, 01:05:44 pm
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6BD3CW20101214?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt&rpc=401 (http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6BD3CW20101214?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt&rpc=401)

What a wonderful story. I love how gems like these keep turning up 2,000 years later.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Aarmale on December 14, 2010, 04:31:57 pm
Wow, thats amazing, and in such good detail!
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: gordian_guy on December 30, 2010, 08:00:04 am



 http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=1219122200169-2010-12-19 (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=1219122200169-2010-12-19)

c.rhodes
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: curtislclay on December 30, 2010, 10:42:30 am
The city referred to in c. rhodes' link is apparently Germanicia in Commagene, which produced small issues of bronze coins under M. Aurelius and L. Verus and then again during Commodus' sole reign: Butcher, Coinage in Roman Syria, pp. 478-9.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: rover1.3 on January 05, 2011, 09:19:32 am
Menander mosaics in Antioch
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-mosaics-pieces-popular-ancient.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: gordian_guy on February 06, 2011, 08:45:50 am


Even China practices Political Correctness:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mystery-of-the-mummys-chinese-travel-ban-2205033.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mystery-of-the-mummys-chinese-travel-ban-2205033.html)

c.rhodes
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Mark Z on February 06, 2011, 12:39:31 pm


Even China practices Political Correctness:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mystery-of-the-mummys-chinese-travel-ban-2205033.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mystery-of-the-mummys-chinese-travel-ban-2205033.html)

c.rhodes

"The victor writes the history books."

mz
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: marcvs_traianvs on March 25, 2011, 12:32:02 am


Even China practices Political Correctness:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mystery-of-the-mummys-chinese-travel-ban-2205033.html

c.rhodes

"The victor writes the history books."

mz

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: slokind on March 25, 2011, 01:55:46 am
Tokharian, I suppose.  I didn't think they were still news, their language with its large Indo-European component having been known for a century.  The wall painting usually nicknamed the Tokharian Knights shows young men dressed in clothes generically like Iranian garments rather than Han Chinese.  On the other hand, shipping unique corpses all over the world might be hard on such fragile remains, and those excavations were well published, also featured years and years ago in TV documentaries and I think National Geographic.  It is not impossible, even, all things considered, that the media made a folk-journalism talking point of the lady's features.  China knows very well that Takla Makan was a polyglot region of trade routes.  That's why it's such an interesting region to study.
Pat L.
The wall painting of the Kinights or Donors that I referred to is illustrated in the Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocharians
Googling Tocharian also takes you to discussion and some pictures of the mummies.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Pekka K on May 17, 2011, 05:51:06 am

Ancient sculpture was colourful:

http://www.glyptoteket.dk/trackingcolour?frames=yes

Pekka K
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Mark Z on May 17, 2011, 09:49:34 am

Ancient sculpture was colourful:

http://www.glyptoteket.dk/trackingcolour?frames=yes

Pekka K

Excellent article!
mz
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Mat on May 17, 2011, 10:06:52 am

Ancient sculpture was colourful:

http://www.glyptoteket.dk/trackingcolour?frames=yes

Pekka K

Great read, thank you!
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: El Reye on May 25, 2011, 12:12:23 pm
Another interesting merger of technology and archeology, I would expect this type of archeological investigating to become more prevalent in the years to come. I can see an immediate application to the Mesoamerican civilizations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957

Cameron
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: *Alex on May 29, 2011, 01:03:27 pm
Posted by *Alex.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on June 06, 2011, 10:58:21 am
The long-lost ‘history’ of prehistoric Britain, including the island’s first wars, is being re-discovered - courtesy of innovations in computer programming as well as archaeology.

Using newly refined computer systems, developed over recent years by programmers at Oxford University, archaeologists from English Heritage and Cardiff University have for the first time been able to fairly accurately date individual prehistoric battles, migrations and building construction projects.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/a-computer-dating-revolution-of-the-archaeological-kind-2293393.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 01, 2011, 07:39:34 am
The 10 greatest archaeological finds of the year:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/greatest-finds-of-the-year-1860991.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Optimo Principi on September 05, 2011, 03:55:08 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14783744 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14783744)

An American student has been caught scaling the wall of the Colosseum, apparently to chip pieces of stone off the structure.

Wow, some people are powerful stupid.

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on March 15, 2012, 08:07:43 am
Nearly 3,000 silver Roman coins found four years ago by a metal detector enthusiast in Sussex are to go on display in the county.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-17378763
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Vladislav D on June 26, 2012, 10:51:57 pm
Iron Age coins discovered in Jersey after 30-year search .
http://gizmodo.com/5921425/30+year-quest-ends-in-15-million-gold-and-silver-coin-treasure (http://gizmodo.com/5921425/30+year-quest-ends-in-15-million-gold-and-silver-coin-treasure)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on July 11, 2012, 03:08:53 pm
Archaic temple (650-630 b.C.) discovered at Selinunte...

http://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/07/11/foto/resti_di_un_tempio_arcaico_ritrovati_a_selinunte-38892939/1/
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on July 13, 2012, 09:37:26 am
Small hoard of Celtic gold coins found in Leicestershire:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-18817501

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: gallienus1 on September 23, 2012, 02:46:55 am
Reading the latest issue of Archaeology magazine Sept/Oct 2012, I was surprised to find an article about a massacre that appears to date from the end of the third to start of the fourth century A.D. at a place called Scupi a few kilometers from modern Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia.

See-
http://www.archaeology.org/1209/features/scupi_mass_grave_mystery.html

And the Wiki reference-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scupi

To quote from the article-
“project leader Lence Jovanova and her team had identified at least 180 adult male skeletons that had been tossed into a pit a foot and a half deep. Many had been decapitated and most had their arms bound behind their backs. Some of the bones show the marks of extreme violence such as cutting and breakage. “It was a terrible sight, like a modern massacre,” says Jovanova. When archaeologist Phil Freeman of the University of Liverpool, who specializes in Roman battlefield archaeology, saw images of the excavation, he says his jaw dropped. “The only thing I can think of that is comparable to this is the Vilnius, Lithuania, mass grave from 1812,” he remarks, referring to the find 10 years ago of 2,000 well-preserved corpses of French soldiers killed during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia”

The archaeologist Phil Freeman believes that it was a military mass execution, but goes on to say that just because something is known to have happened historically at a certain date it is dangerous to view archaeological discoveries around that date as necessarily being connected.

I understand his point of view probably comes from such mistakes as by made by Schliemann at Troy or all those attempts over the years to tie biblical archaeology to biblical text. But in this case, the 269 AD sacking of the city by the Goths seems to me a good place to start.

Steve
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: cicerokid on September 23, 2012, 02:55:39 pm

Thanks for the post.

Wasn't the Latvian "Napoleonic" soldiers victims of the poor hospital conditions and lack of food at the base they reached after their retreat from Russia?

A discovery of a group executed Vikings (bound and beheaded) was made in the last few years in England. Nothing of the size of this though.

It seems the Balkan Celts have always been a problem. Was the Aesillas coinage a bribe to keep them out of the way whillst dealing with Mithradates, or to purchase their co-operation as mercenaries?

The over-representation of 4 New Style types in the middle 120's BC in SW Bulgarian/ Thracian/Macedonian hoards, then seemingly deposited in hoards in the 80's BC alone or mixed with late Thasos imitatives, smacks of troubled times.

Can't wait for carbon dating and possibly oxygen isotope analysis to see where they hailed from.

Cic
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on September 27, 2012, 04:33:52 pm
Napoleon abandoned the wounded and those too weak to continue in Vilna, as it was known then, and many of the survivors were killed after he left. It seems they left the dead and dying in their thousands, and some of these ended up in the mass grave.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/archaeology/napoleon_army_01.shtml
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on December 30, 2012, 05:09:41 pm
4035 ancient coins sold on Ebay, confiscated by the Italian police (in Italy it seems to be illegal to sell ancient coins without an official permission) now delivered to the Numismatic Department of the Archaeological Museum Paolo Orsi in Syracuse.

http://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/12/15/foto/quattromila_monete_antiche_restituite_dai_carabinieri_al_museo-48833017/1/?ref=search
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Mark Z on December 30, 2012, 05:58:08 pm
Taras,

Could you translate the article from the website into English?

I can't seem to copy/paste.

Thanks!

Regards,
mz
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on December 30, 2012, 06:19:28 pm
Mark, do not use the right mouse clic, try to select and ctrl+C (MAC: cmd+C). It should work, with my mac works. If not tell me and I'll translate.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Mark Z on December 31, 2012, 01:18:41 am
Taras,

Excellent! Thanks!

Here is the translation:

4035 coins in gold, silver and bronze, as well as 63 bronze objects, including rings, pendants and buckles delivered to Numismatic Department of the Paolo Orsi Archaeological Museum of Syracuse. The artifacts were donated by police this morning of the core protection and cultural heritage of Sicily in the Museum which abene Guard inside his medals, the largest numismatic museum area in Europe. The trove, is the result of a major confiscation issued by Modica's Attorney as a result of a major operation, doniminata "Archeoweb", created years ago to counter the sale of archaeological finds on eBay and other websites. All objects were seized between 2005 and 2006, derived probably from excavations by so-called grave robbers, in a still unidentified area of eastern Sicily. The trove consists of a large number of Byzantine objects, dating back to the VI, VIII century, silver coins, Roman Republican, tetradrammi identified in ancient silver poleis, siceliote and many other silver and bronze coins of the Roman Empire and the middle ages. The core so that the archaeological heritage obtained proceeds of years of investigations and seizures was not lost, but treasured among the rich and important showcases of the syracusan medals, now known throughout Europe.
(Giusy Grimaldi)


Regards,
mz
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on February 20, 2013, 04:05:35 pm
Marble portrait of Julia, daughter of Emperor Augustus, discovered in Rome some weeks ago.
Here the link to the gallery: http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2013/01/23/foto/ritrovata_testa_antica_a_fiumicino-51085344/1/
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on March 22, 2013, 07:35:34 am
Italian citizens denounced by the police, in the living room he had an Egyptian sarcophagus of 3 thousand years ago.

http://video.repubblica.it/edizione/milano/sondrio-aveva-in-casa-un-sarcofago-di-3mila-anni-fa/123169/121658
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: *Alex on March 22, 2013, 10:44:25 am
In case the link in the post above goes down.

La passione per le antichità egizie ha attirato su di lui l’attenzione della guardia di finanza un uomo di Sondrio è stato denunciato dal comando provinciale perché teneva in bella mostra nel salotto del proprio attico, custodito in una teca, il coperchio ligneo di un sarcofago risalente al VII-VI secolo avanti Crtiso. L’oggetto, valutato "di pregevole fattura" dagli esperti del Museo egizio di Torino, è stato affidato alla soprintendenza ai Beni culturali (Lucia Landoni)

His passion for Egyptian antiquities drew the attention of the financial police upon a man from Sondrio. He was denounced by the provincial command because he kept the wooden lid of a sarcophagus dating back to the VII-VI century BC in a glass case on display in the living room of his penthouse. The object in question, considered "superbly crafted" by the experts of the Egyptian Museum in Turin, has been entrusted to the supervision of Cultural Heritage (Landoni Lucia)

Alex
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Chrismon on March 22, 2013, 02:47:36 pm
Marble portrait of Julia, daughter of Emperor Augustus, discovered in Rome some weeks ago.
Here the link to the gallery: http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2013/01/23/foto/ritrovata_testa_antica_a_fiumicino-51085344/1/

A very interesting and beautiful archaeological find! Thanks for sharing this news  :)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on April 03, 2013, 02:23:18 pm
Submerged patrician villa, from imperial times.
These pics are from the "Parco sommerso di Baia", not far from Napoli.
In the Regional Park of the Campi Flegrei they organize special scuba diving for tourists.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on May 02, 2013, 04:17:00 pm
Starting on 20 may 2013, until 5 november, at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome there will be an exhibition: "Capolavori dell'archeologia: recuperi, ritrovamenti, confronti".
Among the many masterpieces, it will be put on display the so-called "kouros of Reggio Calabria" (Reggio Calabria is the modern name for the ancient Rhegion in Bruttium).
The Italian State acquired it, after a seizure by Italian Police from a private citizen. The statue, lacking the upper and lower limbs, is cm. 90.5 high while, in origin, it was about m. 1.30.
The statue can be compared to the kouroi of the “group Ptoion n.20”, found in Beotia, in a shrine to Apollo Ptoios, manufactured between 520 and 485 B.C, with a style elaborated in Attica, starting from the Ionian canons. The Rhegion specimen stands between the end of the 6 th and the beginning of the 5 th century B.C, since the arms'position, detached from the body and the right one forward, states a quite mature style. Probably it was created by an artist working in Rhegion, who used marble imported from the Greek island of Paros.
The kouroi represent the idea of human perfection of the Greek aristocracy, the moral and intellectual excellence and the body puissance. In particular, the example in Reggio, has been identified with a young athlete; his original aim could be funerary, (as signal of the grave), or cultural (as ex-vote given on a shrine).
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Andrew McCabe on May 02, 2013, 04:23:23 pm
The Italian State acquired it, after a seizure by Italian Police from a private citizen.

Why on earth could this be allowed to happen? Presumably Italy has protections equivalent to the US constitutions 5th amendment:

No person shall be ... deprived of ... property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: benito on May 02, 2013, 04:46:36 pm
The exhibit is dedicated to looted,trafficked and stolen objects.
One of the exhibits ,is  a sarcophagus,whose theft was  commissioned  by an unscrupulous  collector.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on May 02, 2013, 05:07:35 pm
The Italian State acquired it, after a seizure by Italian Police from a private citizen.

Why on earth could this be allowed to happen? Presumably Italy has protections equivalent to the US constitutions 5th amendment:

No person shall be ... deprived of ... property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation

There is nothing like the 5th emendment in Italy. The legislation on the private possession of archaeological heritage is rather rigid, and often ambiguous.
The postulate is that any archaeological resource (including ancient coins) belongs to the State. In the absence of documents proving an old pedigree, or a tax invoice issued by an authorized dealer, objects are considered to come from illegal excavations, and then seized, and the owner is sued for stolen goods.
In Italy, if you are looking for ancient stuff with a metal detector, you can be arrested. Many naive collectors have undergone criminal for selling or buying a single coin on ebay. If you have 99 ancient coins with regular documentation (ie: invoice, description drawn up by the seller with a photograph of the coin, and certificate of legal origin), and only 1 coin without documentation, they seize you all the 100 coins.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Enodia on May 02, 2013, 08:06:15 pm
i apologise for going off topic here, but...

Taras, i was enjoying our PM discussion regarding that odd diobol, but your inbox is full and i can no longer PM you.

~ Peter
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: areich on May 03, 2013, 07:05:24 am
I didn't know this could happen. I never deleted a message, I have a lot of them.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on May 03, 2013, 12:44:23 pm
It can happen, I had capacity 100% full.
I just deleted lots of messages, now is 73% full.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: fluffy82 on May 04, 2013, 05:18:32 pm
There is nothing like the 5th emendment in Italy. The legislation on the private possession of archaeological heritage is rather rigid, and often ambiguous.
The postulate is that any archaeological resource (including ancient coins) belongs to the State. In the absence of documents proving an old pedigree, or a tax invoice issued by an authorized dealer, objects are considered to come from illegal excavations, and then seized, and the owner is sued for stolen goods.
In Italy, if you are looking for ancient stuff with a metal detector, you can be arrested. Many naive collectors have undergone criminal for selling or buying a single coin on ebay. If you have 99 ancient coins with regular documentation (ie: invoice, description drawn up by the seller with a photograph of the coin, and certificate of legal origin), and only 1 coin without documentation, they seize you all the 100 coins.

Which is a good thing, or many (important or not) archaeological findings would never see daylight...
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on May 04, 2013, 06:49:05 pm
There is nothing like the 5th emendment in Italy. The legislation on the private possession of archaeological heritage is rather rigid, and often ambiguous.
The postulate is that any archaeological resource (including ancient coins) belongs to the State. In the absence of documents proving an old pedigree, or a tax invoice issued by an authorized dealer, objects are considered to come from illegal excavations, and then seized, and the owner is sued for stolen goods.
In Italy, if you are looking for ancient stuff with a metal detector, you can be arrested. Many naive collectors have undergone criminal for selling or buying a single coin on ebay. If you have 99 ancient coins with regular documentation (ie: invoice, description drawn up by the seller with a photograph of the coin, and certificate of legal origin), and only 1 coin without documentation, they seize you all the 100 coins.

Which is a good thing, or many (important or not) archaeological findings would never see daylight...

I think things should be problematized in a somewhat more complex way.
Such scrupulousness in persecuting private collectors should go hand in hand with a flawless management of Museums and archaeological sites, but in Italy, unfortunately, things do not always go well.
However, in general I agree with you. Cultural heritage should be a public good first.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Andrew McCabe on May 05, 2013, 03:00:37 am
Confiscation of personal possessions because you don't have a receipt that proves that you own them is simply arbitrary theft by the government. I don't have a receipt for all my old coins, just as I don't have a receipt for my old books, or for my shirts or for my basket of vegetables. Still, the state (in most countries) cannot confiscate these things unless they can prove someone else owns them, or that unusually suspicious circumstances apply (e.g, I was stopped whilst running away from a crime scene). I have no obligation do anything to show my Roman coins belong to me. I don't need to keep receipts or anything. I know that I bought them all legally and no-one else has a claim to them. That's all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(law)
In common law countries, possession is itself a property right. Absent evidence to the contrary, it provides evidence of ownership. Possession of a thing for long enough can become ownership.

but it seems not in Italy.

Back to the Kouros (or to a coin collection in Italy): in most countries, the government needs to bring evidence before they can confiscate things e.g. "here is evidence that the Kouros came from tomb X or was stolen from collection Y". Lacking such proof, the assumption should be that it's owned legally by the possessor. Perhaps it was excavated in 1420 and passed, by sale and family inheritance, to the present owner. Perhaps it was exported from ancient Italy to decorate a house in Tyre since 400 AD, and bought there by Marco Polo on his return from China. Who knows. The current owner doesn't have to have a receipt. It should be enough for him to say "I've owned it since xxx and got it from yyy" and the obligation is on the government to prove he did not.

Anyway, my coins are my own. Forever. They belong to me. I bought them properly (incidentally almost none from Italy), I own them, and I'm keeping them.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: rick2 on May 05, 2013, 03:29:51 am
Andrew dont go there !
i ve been banned from the italian forum lamoneta.it for expressing your exact same position on the subject

but somehow everyone on the forum was afraid to speak out or even worse thought that the authorities by seizing 500$ worth of coins (with all associated policing and judiciary costs) while Pompei is crumbling and other sites lay derelict were doing a fine job!

not only that but some fine minds started to suggest that each and every coin should be accompanied by documents proving the provenance !

I guess this explains why Italy is in decline and if they think like that than they deserve to be treated as slaves and not as citizens by their own authorities.

I m glad I left Italy.......
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: rick2 on May 05, 2013, 03:35:25 am
on top of that you should know that the Italian police comes knocking at your door at 6am like you were a common crack dealer
and that they come looking for one coin and end up taking your whole collection because they suspect that that too might have illicit provenance
so you end up a suspect , need to spend a few thousand euros in legal fees on a lawyer and for the next few years you are at the mercy of the wonderful Italian justice system.

all this while the police shows off the finds as if they were of primary importance to show off

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: David Atherton on May 05, 2013, 08:51:30 am
It can happen, I had capacity 100% full.
I just deleted lots of messages, now is 73% full.

Where is it that one can find out their capacity level? I've never seen it before nor have I ever deleted any of my old messages.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on May 05, 2013, 09:02:56 am
It can happen, I had capacity 100% full.
I just deleted lots of messages, now is 73% full.

Where is it that one can find out their capacity level? I've never seen it before nor have I ever deleted any of my old messages.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: David Atherton on May 05, 2013, 06:28:05 pm
I don't have that capacity display at all. How odd.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Platon on May 06, 2013, 01:21:47 am
Quote
The postulate is that any archaeological resource (including ancient coins) belongs to the State.

How do they prove if a Roman coin was even found in Italy? Or do they seize any ancient artifact, so if I have a collection of ancient Indian coins without legal documentation do they take those too? 
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: *Alex on May 06, 2013, 07:45:00 am
I don't have that capacity display at all. How odd.

Neither do I.   :-\

Alex.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: rick2 on May 06, 2013, 08:09:20 am
Quote
The postulate is that any archaeological resource (including ancient coins) belongs to the State.

How do they prove if a Roman coin was even found in Italy? Or do they seize any ancient artifact, so if I have a collection of ancient Indian coins without legal documentation do they take those too?  

they cant !
that s the problem , the law states that everything that was found after 1909 belongs to the state
i ll let you prove that !

there was a case of a guy who had a visit at 6am by the police for a lot of uncleaned coins he bought on ebay coming from serbia
and took everything

when you start to point out that all this is wrong and diabolical you get reply that its standard practice for the police to raid premises at that time of the day and that they are only doing their job
that is standard practice for the judge to open a line of investigation that will result you in having to hire an expensive lawyer for a few years
and that they are in italy and cant change the law
on top of that some very wise man start to argue that every bit is an important piece of archeology and that people who go with MD in ploughed field to look for dusturbed coins that are being corroded by all the chemicals used in agriculture are tumb raiders

this in a country where the decentius villa is losing money as it gets 5 visitor a day at 3 euro per ticket , and pompei is crumbling

what maddens me even more is that they go after the small guy who buys 10 euros worth of uncleaned coins on ebay and not after the proper tombaroli !
showing that the italian state is weak with the strongs and strong with the weaks

i guess the italians deserve to be treated that way

i was in turkey recently and was surprised and saddened to discover that the turks are a lot more clever and civilized than the italians !
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: fluffy82 on May 06, 2013, 06:10:42 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(law)
In common law countries, possession is itself a property right. Absent evidence to the contrary, it provides evidence of ownership. Possession of a thing for long enough can become ownership.

but it seems not in Italy.

That doesn't count for stolen goods... If I posess a stolen car for 15 years and they find out, I will still have to return the car if I can't prove that I actually bought it somewhere legally. The law says that any "ancient object" dug up is owned buy the state, so if you keep it to yourself it is stealing. Normally (and I know it isn't the case, unfortunately), every coin around should have a certificate saying where and when it was found, with a legal stamp that it has been catalogued by the state.
Anyway, you can't compare ancient coins or other similar objects with t-shirts or books. I don't keep receipt for my books, but if I ever buy a Picasso I wouldn't dream of throwing the "ownership deeds" away.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: rick2 on May 07, 2013, 03:56:42 am
every coin around should have a certificate saying where and when it was found, with a legal stamp that it has been catalogued by the state.

are you italian by chance ?
because that is exactly the same argument that i get in the other forum

there is a fundamental mistake in comparing a picasso which is a unique opera to a gloria exercitus which isn t and is known in million of pieces

have you actually ever considered how many roman coins there are around ?
probably from hundreds of millions to billions
do you think such a system is feasible ?
and if it s feasible what are its costs?
do you also know what it would do to entry level coins that costs a few $ and are the main route to ancient coin collecting and history ?

if you are italian
do you think notoriously inefficient italian state would be capable not just of setting up such a system but of making it work ?
because judging from the half finished projects and potholed road i find in italy i have serious doubt
have you ever heard the expression cant organize a pissup in a brewery ?
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: fluffy82 on May 07, 2013, 10:11:29 am
every coin around should have a certificate saying where and when it was found, with a legal stamp that it has been catalogued by the state.

are you italian by chance ?
because that is exactly the same argument that i get in the other forum

there is a fundamental mistake in comparing a picasso which is a unique opera to a gloria exercitus which isn t and is known in million of pieces

have you actually ever considered how many roman coins there are around ?
probably from hundreds of millions to billions
do you think such a system is feasible ?
and if it s feasible what are its costs?
do you also know what it would do to entry level coins that costs a few $ and are the main route to ancient coin collecting and history ?

if you are italian
do you think notoriously inefficient italian state would be capable not just of setting up such a system but of making it work ?
because judging from the half finished projects and potholed road i find in italy i have serious doubt
have you ever heard the expression cant organize a pissup in a brewery ?

Lol, no I'm not italian :)
But I'm european, and I think this way of thinking is quite general here.

I don't think it's a mistake to compare antiquities with Picasso: both are considered "art", both are old, both are object of collections (private and museums), both could possibly be worth a lot of money, both have a broad cultural importance.

Like I said, I know the system of cataloging and certificates is almost impossible to achieve, but it would be an ideal world... If they had done this since the beginning, those hundreds of Ancient Egyptian mummies and artifacts would not be lost today, and who knows what other treasures are now still lost or hidden without anyone knowing about them?
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on June 18, 2013, 06:29:01 am
Oxfordshire's earliest recorded resident: Roman tombstone goes on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-22873707
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: David Atherton on June 18, 2013, 10:00:21 am
Oxfordshire's earliest recorded resident: Roman tombstone goes on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-22873707

The Roman kind of reminds me of the elderly uncle Aquila in Rosemary's Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth who retired to Britannia. I quite enjoyed this little article. Thanks for posting it!
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on July 04, 2013, 09:15:20 am
Head of a British Roman god found:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-23164533
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Retrospectator on August 23, 2013, 05:10:01 am
Hidden Slave Tunnel Discovered Beneath Hadrian's Villa:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10255167/Archaeologists-discover-hidden-slave-tunnel-beneath-Hadrians-Villa.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Arados on August 23, 2013, 06:56:43 am
Hidden Slave Tunnel Discovered Beneath Hadrian's Villa:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10255167/Archaeologists-discover-hidden-slave-tunnel-beneath-Hadrians-Villa.html

It would be facinating to get a sneak preview of the tunnels in September, i will be stopping over a few nights in Tivoli and was planning on visiting Hadrians palace with a friend of mine who was born in the town. Who knows he might be able to talk the Italian archaeologists into letting us have a look round.....fingers crossed.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: David Atherton on March 19, 2014, 11:24:41 pm
A group of tiny Dead Sea Scrolls have been found. http://www.timesofisrael.com/nine-tiny-new-dead-sea-scrolls-come-to-light/
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: *Alex on March 20, 2014, 07:25:34 pm
Another theft ... this time from from Pompeii.

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2014/03/18/Artemis-fresco-stolen-Pompeii_10250365.html

Alex
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Britannicus on April 10, 2014, 11:03:55 pm
Leicester dig unearths Iron Age mint and Roman tile with dog paw prints:

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Leicester-dig-unearths-Iron-Age-mint-Roman-tile/story-20931780-detail/story.html (http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Leicester-dig-unearths-Iron-Age-mint-Roman-tile/story-20931780-detail/story.html)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on July 07, 2014, 03:08:47 am
A group of 26 coins, including three Roman coins which pre-date the invasion of Britain in AD 43, and 20 other gold and silver pieces which are Late Iron Age and thought to belong to the Corieltavi tribe, found in a cave close to my home town in England:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-28189287
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: *Alex on July 07, 2014, 09:43:42 am
A group of 26 coins, including three Roman coins which pre-date the invasion of Britain in AD 43, and 20 other gold and silver pieces which are Late Iron Age and thought to belong to the Corieltavi tribe, found in a cave close to my home town in England:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-28189287

See also:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=96676.0

*Alex
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 26, 2014, 05:45:43 am
A hoard of 22,000 Roman coins has been unearthed near Seaton in east Devon, UK:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-29368075
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on October 17, 2014, 01:20:28 am
An interesting article on chemical analysis of the recent Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon hoard:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/britains-greatest-treasure-hoard-reveals-how-goldsmiths-cheated-their-saxon-clients-9799977.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Britannicus on January 09, 2015, 01:03:49 am
Ok, I'm confused. The title of the article is Rare orichalcum metal said to be from the legendary Atlantis recovered from 2,600-year-old shipwreck. It discusses how “nothing similar has ever been found.” One authority says, "We knew orichalcum from ancient texts and a few ornamental objects.” Isn't this metal also used in ancient coins? I've seen many coins described as "orichalcum." Is this jut a customary term for describing metal for coins in which the alloy is unknown but look brass colored, or are they actually the orichalcum as described in the article. If so, what is so "mysterious?'

http://www.ancient-origins.net/comment/8071#comment-8071 (http://www.ancient-origins.net/comment/8071#comment-8071)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on January 13, 2015, 04:30:26 pm
Italian police, in cooperation with the FBI, foiled a smuggling of stolen artifacts in Magna Graecia organized by Italian criminals, in contact with unsuspected antique dealers, businessmen, and some curators of the largest museums in the world.
During the police operation a warehouse was seized  in Switzerland, containing 5000 priceless antiquities stolen from Italian ground, ready to be sold on the international market.

(http://www.repstatic.it/content/localirep/img/inchieste/2014/12/16/175950988-7f30e600-690a-4a28-8b92-1dbb4ab3265d.jpg)

In USA two months ago Federal authorities have seized a Roman sarcophagus hidden in a warehouse in Queens, New York. For over thirty years scholars had lost track of this wonderful artifact in Carrara marble, made about 1,800 years ago, on which is carved the image of a lying and sleeping woman, that Homeland Security agents have named "The Sleeping Beauty ".

(http://www.repstatic.it/content/localirep/img/inchieste/2014/12/16/175950887-02d7c0cf-9271-4c6b-84dc-18e35d54731c.jpg)

Placed inside a box, was about to be sent to his Japanese buyer, when it was intercepted by the Federal Prosecutor in New York who has decided for the seizure and return to Italy.

(http://www.repstatic.it/content/localirep/img/inchieste/2014/12/16/175950909-f342062b-0154-4a8b-85fb-1d855bcfc8ab.jpg)

The buyer of the sarcophagus, which had paid $ 3 million, was Noriyoshi Horiuchi, famous merchant of antiquities in close ties with Gianfranco Becchina, the owner of the warehouse seized in Switzerland.
Becchina handled businesses with the world's greatest museums, including the Louvre, the Museum of Munch, the Metropolitan in New York, the Museum of Boston, the Ninagawa of Hurashiki in Japan, the Ashmolean in Oxford, the museum of Utrecht, the Museum of Toledo in Ohio and many others. Becchina made deals even with prestigious Universities such as Columbia, Washington, Kassel, Princeton and Yale. His most famous sale is the Crater Asteas, paid 500 thousand dollars and many years later returned to Italy. It was clandestinely excavated in 1974 in Sant'Agata dei Goti, in Campania.
Policemen have also seized Mr. Becchina's dossier, an archive containing photos of the pieces, names of buyers, and salaries of criminal unofficial diggers. In the dossier Becchina there are many more objects photographed and recorded, compared to those found in his deposits, this means that there are still many stolen works of art that are to be found.

Source: http://inchieste.repubblica.it/it/repubblica/rep-it/2015/01/12/news/mafia_e_arte-99674768/?ref=HREC1-35#gallery-slider=103055231


Regards
Nico
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on February 26, 2015, 08:26:50 am
Italian police stopped a criminal gang composed of 10 people, including grave robbers and counterfeiters, all under investigation for conspiracy to receiving stolen goods and forgery. They sold on the black market both fakes and genuine ancient coins and artifacts illegally excavated in Sicily. Two workshops of forgers have been seized in the area near Catania.
Quoting from the article:
"What made this criminal chain absolutely winning was the counterfeiting of archaeological objects that were sold with the authentic ones to increase profits. The counterfeiting activities was entrusted to two artisans in Catania, in whose laboratories were found by police over 800 fake ancient coins, plus several tools including dies, molds and other equipment. "Fakes, especially coins, were used to grow the revenue of a millionaire business - adds Captain Mancuso - The two labs discovered in Misterbianco and Paterno have been identified by the ordination of a quantity of coins required by a Collector. in the absence of genuine coinage, to full satisfy the customer's demand and raise the price, a part was counterfeit, a job so well done that we too will have to study the seized material to establish the authenticity. "

source: http://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2015/02/23/news/scoperta_la_gang_dei_tombaroli_falsari_16_denunce_dei_carabinieri-108005100/

Regards
Nico
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: S3VERVS on June 12, 2015, 02:35:37 pm
http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2015/06/12/bulgarian-customs-capture-us-bound-smuggled-treasure-of-silver-coins-of-king-philip-ii-of-macedon/
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Dino on December 07, 2015, 03:24:56 pm
http://twistedsifter.com/2014/11/2200-year-old-mosaics-discovered-in-ancient-greek-city/
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on January 29, 2016, 05:40:18 am
Hoard of 3000+  second and third centuries AD coins found in Somerset, UK. Some nice pictures in the article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3421222/Hoard-3-000-Roman-coins-unearthed-Rare-monies-buried-270AD-bear-image-various-emperors-elephant-hippo-worth-175-000.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on February 27, 2016, 02:40:27 pm
Hi all,
I share the pic of an inedite samnite-campanian fresco, stolen from a tomb as result of illegal excavations in Paestum, recovered by the Italian police and recently displayed at Rome. It is dated c.300 BC. It shows a warrior armed with javelins and round shield, going back home with a mule carrying the war booty.

Regards :)
Nico
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Taras on March 12, 2016, 12:05:21 pm
Good news from the Italian Ministry of Culture!
http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Comunicati/visualizza_asset.html_1690785199.html

I translate parts of the bulletin:

The timely intervention of the Superintendence has allowed these days to save a grave from illegal diggers. The "grave robbers" have acted at night, in Poggio Mengarelli, important necropolis especially for the earlier phases of the history of the city of Vulci, leaving behind them, as traces of the attempt of looting, clearly not been successful, a large pit with loose soil and the remains in fragments of the top cover of the tomb.
The materials and the type of grave allowed archaeologists to date the tomb to Early Orientalizing period (late eighth and early seventh c. BC).

I post some pics from other sites reporting the news; it is much likely that it was tomb of a woman of high social status, probably a local princess.

Bye :)
Nico


Image sources:
http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/speciali/2016/03/07/il-tesoro-della-principessa-bambina_746f7287-1ad6-4111-adb4-57d3b4277027.html
http://www.etruriaoggi.it/a-vulci-scoperta-tomba-dellottocento-a-c-stava-per-essere-violata/


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Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on May 20, 2016, 01:11:20 am
Frescoed barracks which once housed the cavalry of the Emperor Hadrian’s bodyguard have emerged into daylight after 19 centuries during excavations for a new underground train line in Rome:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/20/next-stop-on-romes-new-underground-hadrians-barracks
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on July 19, 2016, 01:25:03 am
Crouching dogs and diving dolphins: 'Remarkable' belt of a Roman soldier discovered in Leicester grave:

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3696585/Crouching-dogs-diving-dolphins-Remarkable-belt-Roman-soldier-discovered-Leicester-grave.html#ixzz4EpSuPpdU

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: quadrans on July 19, 2016, 01:47:22 am
Thank you..

Interesting article..

 Q.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on August 10, 2016, 07:39:06 am
Late Roman coins and spells found in Serbian graves:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3732983/Mystery-spells-unearthed-ancient-skeletons-Serbia-Greek-inscriptions-thought-help-dead-perform-magic-afterlife.html

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: gallienus1 on August 17, 2016, 07:01:33 am
Thank you Xenophon, a really interesting find.

I found a short youtube clip that adds a little more information.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqGmnIpQe_k

Steve
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Simon on November 15, 2016, 05:21:03 am
Great article from the New York Times on the Black Sea shipwreck finds.

http://nyti.ms/2epF45P

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: cicerokid on November 15, 2016, 03:57:34 pm
There is also a Snaubrig ( snowbrig)  upright on the bottom of the Baltic with partial masts still standing practically complete. 17th or 18th century.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on November 16, 2016, 01:30:58 am
Anglo Saxon burial ground where hollowed out tree trunks were used as coffins and wooden planks line the graves is found after 1,100 years

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3940118/Anglo-Saxon-burial-ground-hollowed-tree-trunks-used-coffins-wooden-planks-line-graves-1-100-years.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Arados on November 16, 2016, 05:20:20 am
Fascinating find, thanks for sharing Xenophon.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on November 17, 2016, 07:57:53 am
1000 coin hoard dating from the English Civil War found in Lincolnshire:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3944970/Buried-treasure-1-000-coins-English-Civil-War-dug-muddy-Lincolnshire-field.html

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on February 28, 2017, 04:06:02 am
Friends who returned to abandoned hobby find Iron Age gold jewellery – the Leekfrith torcs – in Staffordshire field:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/28/detectorists-strike-iron-age-gold-staffordshire-field
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on March 21, 2017, 09:14:47 am
Lead ingot found in Mendip Hills near Wells, Somerset:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4334398/Bricklayer-sell-2-000-year-old-lead-Roman-ingot.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on March 30, 2017, 12:37:51 pm
Iron Age chariot and horse found buried together in Yorkshire:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/30/iron-age-chariot-horse-found-buried-together-yorkshire/
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Mat on March 30, 2017, 12:48:13 pm
^Thanks for the link!
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on April 19, 2017, 01:40:36 am
Dutch East India Company shipwreck laden with silver coins to be excavated this summer:

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/04/voc-ship-sunk-off-the-coast-of-england-to-be-investigated/
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on May 30, 2017, 01:47:00 am
Roman baths and selection of weapons, pottery and coins is found under a cricket ground during work to build a new pavilion:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4553688/Roman-bathhouse-discovered-Cumbria-cricket-site.html

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on May 31, 2017, 07:22:35 am
Some excellent recent photographs of Domitilla's catacombs in Rome:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4556660/Domitilla-catacombs-unveiled-years-renovation.html
Title: Silver and gold Roman coin hoard.
Post by: *Alex on July 09, 2017, 06:14:02 pm
An interesting hoard of gold and silver ancient Roman coins has been found at a mining site in Huelva, southern Spain.

https://www.thelocal.es/20170706/milestone-treasure-of-ancient-roman-coins-found-at-mining-site

*Alex
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: curtislclay on July 09, 2017, 06:57:36 pm
The photo seems not to show the reported find : 40-50 gold or silver coins are described, conjectured to have been the contents of a leather purse that has not survived, but the picture seems to show sestertii or middle bronzes, more than 40-50 of them, far too many to fit in a normal purse!
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: peterpil19 on July 09, 2017, 11:05:35 pm
Hi Curtis,

That is because it is a "file photo" which appears to have been taken from an earlier find. If you use Google Reverse image search you will see the other articles it was used in.

I am constantly surprised by how much some people can fit into their purse! I am sure some things are constant, no matter which millennium...

Peter
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on July 10, 2017, 10:19:43 am
More Roman letters found at Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/10/new-cache-of-roman-letters-discovered-at-hadrians-wall
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: peterpil19 on July 20, 2017, 01:08:01 am
Not exactly coin related but I thought I would share. It is not common to get archaeological news concerning Australia.

Globally Significant Archaelogical Discovery in Australia:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/what-globally-significant-archaeological-discovery-in-australia-actually-means/news-story/e5744f4826789b7300afe581d1521f98

Peter
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on August 24, 2017, 06:17:58 am
1,500-year-old Christian mosaic floor with a Greek inscription uncovered in Jerusalem:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4816036/Israeli-archaeologists-uncover-rare-1-500-year-old-mosaic.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on August 25, 2017, 01:49:47 am
 Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study. Dating from 1,000 years before Pythagoras’s theorem, the Babylonian clay tablet is a trigonometric table more accurate than any today, say researchers:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/24/mathematical-secrets-of-ancient-tablet-unlocked-after-nearly-a-century-of-study

The full paper on which the above article is based can be found here, but requires a fairly high level of maths (beyond mine!):

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086017300691
Title: Re: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Aarmale on August 25, 2017, 10:56:57 am
Interesting! I am very skeptical that the tables are somehow "more accurate than any available today." Computers can easily give any trigonometric value to an arbitrary accuracy in almost no time at all. But at any rate, the calculations are impressive.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: RL on August 26, 2017, 04:07:51 am
GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE—Analysis of ancient Roman coins has shown that the defeat of the Carthaginian general Hannibal led to a flood of wealth across the Roman Empire from the silver mines of Spain. This finding, which gives us a tangible record of the transition of Rome from a regional power to an Empire, is presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Paris.

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2017/article/analysis-finds-defeat-of-hannibal-written-in-the-coins-of-the-roman-empire (http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2017/article/analysis-finds-defeat-of-hannibal-written-in-the-coins-of-the-roman-empire)
Title: Re: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: OldMoney on August 27, 2017, 04:02:26 am
Interesting! I am very skeptical that the tables are somehow "more accurate than any available today." Computers can easily give any trigonometric value to an arbitrary accuracy in almost no time at all. But at any rate, the calculations are impressive.

I saw an interview about this yesterday, and whilst I cannot recall the exact
quote, he said something like it was a better way of doing them, rather than
being more accurate. Or perhaps it was easier to teach them this way.
Sorry I cannot recall the exact phrase, and I cannot find the interview online.
Simply, not 'more accurate', but a better method (or something like that!).
All the best,

Walter
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 01, 2017, 05:56:10 am
British and Iraqi archaeologists identify the first known settlement built under the enigmatic Sealand kings:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/01/castle-sealand-kings-ancient-iraqs-rebel-rulers
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 02, 2017, 02:49:13 pm
Exquisite 1,600-year-old Roman mosaic described as 'the most exciting such discovery made in Britain in the last 50 years' is unearthed in Berkshire:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4846364/Roman-mosaic-unearthed-Berkshire.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 08, 2017, 02:11:43 am
Not really archaeology, but a there is a very interesting article on the Roman herb silphium here:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170907-the-mystery-of-the-lost-roman-herb
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 10, 2017, 01:20:27 pm
More finds from Vindolanda:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4869836/Secrets-Roman-legionaries-uncovered-Hadrian-s-Wall.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 28, 2017, 03:27:16 am
Metal detectorists unearth unique hoard of Roman artefacts, including a ‘licking’ dog sculpture never before found in Britain:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/27/metal-detectorists-unearth-unique-hoard-of-roman-artefacts

More photos here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4926994/Metal-detectorists-1-700-year-old-bronze-statue-UK.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Bill W4 on September 28, 2017, 04:05:23 pm
I Enjoy this stuff, thanks
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on October 04, 2017, 01:55:47 pm
More interesting stuff for you Bill  (and everyone) - the Antikythera shipwreck yields a bronze arm and hints at a spectacular haul of classical statues:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/04/antikythera-shipwreck-yields-new-treasures-and-hints-of-priceless-classical-statues
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: OldMoney on October 04, 2017, 10:56:20 pm
I had the pleasure of visiting the Antikythera Mechanism exhibition
in Athens a few years ago, and it was a wonderful experience!
I was not previously aware that a number of coins were also found
in relation to the wreck as well, including cistophorii of Ephesus and
Pergamon (among others), which assisted in dating matters.
It seems the more I read, the more interesting it gets!

Walter
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: mix_val on October 06, 2017, 12:47:28 pm
More interesting stuff for you Bill  (and everyone) - the Antikythera shipwreck yields a bronze arm and hints at a spectacular haul of classical statues:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/04/antikythera-shipwreck-yields-new-treasures-and-hints-of-priceless-classical-statues

more info here about the bronze disc

http://www.nature.com/news/antikythera-shipwreck-yields-statue-pieces-and-mystery-bronze-disc-1.22735?WT.ec_id=NEWSDAILY-20171006
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on November 09, 2017, 01:44:12 am
The London Mithraeum has been restored to its original site seven metres (23 ft) below the City of London, using sound, lights and misty haze to bring the ruin back to life:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5063255/First-look-rediscovered-London-Roman-temple.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: RL on November 12, 2017, 05:36:31 am
ANCIENT GREECE: HAUL OF JEWELS AND GOLDEN COINS UNCOVERED FROM 2,000-YEAR-OLD TOMBS

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-greece-haul-jewels-and-golden-coins-uncovered-2000-year-old-tombs-698275 (http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-greece-haul-jewels-and-golden-coins-uncovered-2000-year-old-tombs-698275)
http://www.culture.gr/el/information/SitePages/view.aspx?nID=2060#prettyPhoto (http://www.culture.gr/el/information/SitePages/view.aspx?nID=2060#prettyPhoto)

From the photo (and the very brief description in Greek source) it looks like the coins pictured are from Sikyon/Sikyonia, (Dove flying left/presumably Chimera on the obverse although they aren't shown). Interestingly, they appear to be gold. While I may be drawing attention to my (unfortunate) ignorance of Greek coins, a quick check on Wildwinds/Acsearch, doesn't turn up any examples of the type in AU.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on November 13, 2017, 05:55:05 am
I have never come across any listings of gold coinage from Sikyon. However, when I visited the museum at Sikyon about 5 years ago the coin cabinet contained the example below:
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Altamura on November 14, 2017, 03:22:19 pm
If I understood it right, a danake is not an official coin but some sort of imprint or copy of a coin for burial purposes.

Here the objects from Tenea are also called danake: http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.P82?lang=en

Regards

Altamura
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: RL on November 14, 2017, 03:49:45 pm
Thanks Altamura, danake was a term I hadn't come across before.

Without wanting to get too off the topic of archaeological news, given there doesn't seem to be a numiswiki entry for the term, for those interested in learning a little more there is what looks like a reasonably well referenced wikipedia article explaining the usage of the word, and a more in-depth and rather interesting article on the general practice of burying coins with the dead in the classical world (Charon's Obol) which also addresses it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danake)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol)
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on November 15, 2017, 06:05:39 am
Also thanks from me Altamura. I had been perplexed by the term as well.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: RL on November 15, 2017, 04:11:10 pm
This is an interesting read, it seems one of our spiritual numismatic ancestor's collections may have been uncovered in Bulgaria:

ROMAN COIN HOARD FOUND BY CHANCE UNDER TREE ‘CONFIRMS’ EXISTENCE OF ROMAN TOWN IN BULGARIA’S MEZDRA

Quote
“The collective find of silver coins from Mezdra is of extreme historical and cultural value. The coins from Rome’s imperial period carry a great amount of information because of their rich iconography and rather detailed inscriptions," Ganetsovski has told BTA.

In his words, the silver coins were collected over a period of some 200 year – from the middle of the 1st century AD until the middle of the 3rd century AD.

The earliest of the coins that have made it to the Vratsa Museum denarii and antoniani from the reigns of Emperors Nero (r. 54 – 68 AD), Galba (68 – 69 AD), Vitellius (69 AD), and Vespasian (69-79 AD).

“The find includes 2nd century AD denarii of [usurper emperor] Clodius Albinus (193; 196 AD)," Ganetsovski says.

“[The end date of the coin collection] is marked by the last Emperor represented in it, Severus Alexander (r. 222 – 235 AD)," he adds.

“[We have] established a very interesting sequence in the imperial emissions of the amassed coins as well as many coins dedicated to the emperors’ wives," the Museum Director notes.

“There are coins minted on the territory of today’s Syria which speaks of a very serious commercial circulation. The condition of many of the coins shows that they were in circulation. However, another part of them are well preserved, and apparently were not used at all but were collected," he elaborates.

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2017/11/10/roman-coin-hoard-found-chance-tree-confirms-existence-roman-town-bulgarias-mezdra/ (http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2017/11/10/roman-coin-hoard-found-chance-tree-confirms-existence-roman-town-bulgarias-mezdra/)

Unfortunately, they seem to think about 800 additional coins from the find have fallen off the back of a truck somewhere...
Title: Re: Archaeological News Three Roman ships found in Alexandria with great finds!
Post by: Canaan on November 22, 2017, 05:12:06 am
https://earth-chronicles.com/science/not-far-from-alexandria-found-sunken-roman-ships.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on November 29, 2017, 01:08:45 am
Archaeologists find first evidence for Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/11/29/archaeologists-find-first-evidence-julius-caesars-invasion-britain/

Also:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5125295/Landing-site-Julius-Caesars-invasion-Britain-found.html

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on December 05, 2017, 01:35:11 am
An article on recent archaeological finds in England, including the Frome (pronounced Frume) hoard of 52,000 Roman coins:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/dec/04/coin-laden-pot-pendant-british-museum-record-haul-2016-treasure-finds

The picture shows part of the Frome hoard.

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on December 05, 2017, 05:21:58 am
Lots of interesting pictures of the submerged site of Baiae in the Bay of Naples:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5144469/Sunken-Roman-city-lies-beneath-waves-Italy.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: *Alex on December 12, 2017, 05:56:37 pm
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2017/article/more-than-1-000-ancient-sealings-discovered

*Alex
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: peterpil19 on December 13, 2017, 05:25:02 pm
Two ancient tombs discovered in Egypt will be opened to tourists:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/middle-east/two-ancient-tombs-discovered-in-egypt-will-be-opened-to-tourists/news-story/306c20777590817734b0c9f3039772ed
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: okidoki on December 17, 2017, 03:26:50 pm
Reconstructing the Faces of Pompeii Victims

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_3ggKg0Bc
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Jay GT4 on December 17, 2017, 04:12:32 pm
Great animation Eric.  Whenever I'm in the Bay of Naples I'm always aware of the mountain and what could easily happen even now.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on December 17, 2017, 05:10:41 pm
It was erupting ever 15 years or so till 1946, and hasn't done anything since. The longer it goes, the more dangerous the next one will be.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: peterpil19 on December 18, 2017, 07:31:07 pm
Really interesting video. Not what I was expecting at all. Quite frightening to watch actually whilst imagining you are physically there.

Peter
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on January 30, 2018, 03:12:15 pm
Not all gold coins found in the ground are old........

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/30/detectorists-stumble-treasure-trove-roman-gold-think/

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Bill W4 on January 30, 2018, 03:38:18 pm
Saw this; I felt a bit bad for those two.  They had the find of a lifetime for awhile.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on February 01, 2018, 04:19:33 am
1,300-year-old Anglo-Saxon cross presented to Cambridge museum:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/01/1300-year-old-anglo-saxon-cross-presented-to-cambridge-museum
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on February 19, 2018, 05:10:46 pm
Unique Roman boxing gloves found near Hadrian's Wall:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/19/rare-roman-boxing-gloves-found-hadrians-wall
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Jay GT4 on February 19, 2018, 07:19:04 pm
The boxing gloves are incredible!  That dig is going to provide some amazing finds.  An episode of Digging for Britain spotlighted some of what they've already discovered.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: peterpil19 on February 26, 2018, 01:08:45 am
'AN ANCIENT cemetery containing 40 mummies and a necklace inscribed with the message “Happy New Year” has been in found Egypt.': AN ANCIENT cemetery containing 40 mummies and a necklace inscribed with the message “Happy New Year” has been in found Egypt.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/ancient-egyptian-cemetery-with-40-mummies-and-1000-statues-found-in-the-nile-valley/news-story/bb2b918d83f9ec99ba201c555120d4e0#.kj40k
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on March 08, 2018, 05:56:39 pm
Archaeologists working on Rome's Metro C line uncover a second century AD residence. Lots of great pictures:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5477207/Incredible-home-2nd-century-military-commander-Rome.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Jay GT4 on March 08, 2018, 06:01:39 pm
Incredible!
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: SC on March 11, 2018, 11:32:20 am
New line of flooring Jay??

SC
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Jay GT4 on March 12, 2018, 08:05:32 pm
Would love to!
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on April 16, 2018, 09:50:22 am
Boy unearths treasure of the Danish king Bluetooth in Germany:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/treasure-of-legendary-danish-king-bluetooth-unearthed-in-germany
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on May 24, 2018, 03:42:40 pm
Southwark sarcophagus' to go on display: Roman tomb containing 1,600-year-old bones of a wealthy woman and her gold will be showcased in London:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5767719/Rare-Roman-sarcophagus-unearthed-London-goes-display-time.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on June 27, 2018, 05:02:20 pm
Archaeologists have discovered a Roman artefact described as the 'hand of God' near Hadrian's Wall in the north of England:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5893469/Ancient-Roman-sculpture-discovered-near-Hadrians-Wall.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Enodia on June 27, 2018, 08:48:18 pm
cool!
just a few months ago I finished reading Lindsey Davis' "The Iron Hand of Mars" which takes place in Germania and deals with a very similar idea.

~ Peter
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on July 11, 2018, 02:36:48 am
Oldest written record of Homer's Odyssey is found on a 3rd Century clay tablet unearthed near Olympia's ruined Temple of Zeus:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5939115/Oldest-written-record-Homers-Odyssey-3rd-Century-clay-tablet.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Enodia on July 11, 2018, 01:11:24 pm
This is really cool!
I wonder where i can get a copy?   ;) 

- Peter
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: n.igma on July 11, 2018, 05:40:31 pm
'If this date is confirmed, the tablet could be the oldest written record of Homer's work ever discovered' in Greece, a ministry statement said.

This was misreported as "Archaeologists may have discovered the oldest known extract of Homer's epic poem." FAKE NEWS indeed! Although the find itself is marvelous.

Here's an older fragmentary piece of the Odyssey on papyrus dating to 250 BC, half a millennium earlier!

It's hardly obscure, held as it is in the collection at The Met!

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/09.182.50/

This is the first early Ptolemaic fragment of the Odyssey ever discovered. It contains three lines from Book 20 that do not occur in the standard text preserved today and is a physical testimony to the fact that local variations of this famous work existed in the third century B.C.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on August 02, 2018, 02:53:56 am
What ancient Greek music really sounded like: researchers reconstruct a song not heard for 2,000 years:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6016599/What-ancient-Greek-music-REALLY-sounded-like-Researchers-reconstruct-2-000-year-old-Song-Homer.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Pharsalos on August 03, 2018, 06:33:44 am
For those who might have missed this, an amazing gold Roman ring found in England:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-somerset-45038710/a-metal-detectorist-discovered-the-roman-gold-signet-ring
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: cicerokid on August 04, 2018, 12:36:23 pm
The Greek music is to die for. The double aulos is an incredible instrument. None of the sounds sound foreign to my ears, but the Kihara/lyre is disappointing.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: okidoki on August 04, 2018, 04:30:03 pm
https://archeologieonline.nl/nieuws/1800-jaar-oud-romeins-graf-gevonden-op-grieks-eiland

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: *Alex on August 04, 2018, 06:53:47 pm
For those who might have missed this, an amazing gold Roman ring found in England:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-somerset-45038710/a-metal-detectorist-discovered-the-roman-gold-signet-ring

Thanks Pharsalos

I missed that. The ring is a real work of art.

Alex

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on August 26, 2018, 08:43:13 am
Hoard of 2,000-year-old silver Roman coins unearthed by group of friends and a metal detector:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/25/hoard-2000-year-old-silver-roman-coins-unearthed-group-friends/
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: okidoki on September 04, 2018, 01:55:45 am
https://nos.nl/artikel/2248876-archeologische-topvondst-vogelschaal-die-in-3e-eeuw-als-urn-diende.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 06, 2018, 11:17:21 am
How Romans made their BISCUITS: Incredible drawings reveal a complex factory powered by 16 water wheels used to make food for sailors:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6138001/Enormous-Roman-biscuit-factory-powered-16-water-wheels-used-make-food-sailors.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on October 13, 2018, 03:08:25 am
Perfectly preserved ancient shrine 'frozen in time' in volcanic ash for 2,000 years is found in the ruined city of Pompeii:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6268707/Perfectly-preserved-ancient-shrine-hidden-ash-2-000-years-uncovered-Pompeii.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Mat on October 13, 2018, 09:53:46 am
Perfectly preserved ancient shrine 'frozen in time' in volcanic ash for 2,000 years is found in the ruined city of Pompeii:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6268707/Perfectly-preserved-ancient-shrine-hidden-ash-2-000-years-uncovered-Pompeii.html

Thanks for the link! +++
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on January 22, 2019, 02:07:29 am
The massive 3rd century AD Antiquity building exposed in July 2018 underneath the Maltepe Mound, Bulgaria’s largest Ancient Thracian burial mound ever, has turned out to be a tower tomb like the ones in ancient Middle East cities such as Petra and Palmyra, and could contain the remains of Roman Emperor Philip I the Arab (r. 244 – 249 AD).

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2019/01/16/bulgarias-largest-thracian-mound-proves-to-be-tower-tomb-like-in-petra-palmyra-likely-of-roman-emperor-philip-i-the-arab/?fbclid=IwAR2ngE4vUYTML1-W3VjwaTD64qIySlABB6K1dMgotmFTZ-2JAdnI0IK-F0U
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on February 15, 2019, 05:27:52 pm
Detectorist finds pendant made from Roman solidus:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6709961/Anglo-Saxon-pendant-dating-1-500-years-discovered-amateur-metal-detectorist.html

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on February 27, 2019, 02:44:23 am
APRO ET MAXIMO CONSVLIBVS OFICINA MERCATI

Hadrian's Wall archaeologists discover graffiti and pictures of Roman quarrymen who built it:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/27/hadrians-wall-archaeologists-discover-rude-graffiti-pictures/
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: okidoki on February 27, 2019, 03:12:43 am
thank you for sharing
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on March 04, 2019, 03:16:45 am
Unique Alexandria catacombs where ancient Egypt meets Greek and Roman styles are saved from flooding thanks to £4.3million restoration. Lots of excellent photographs:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6766579/Alexandria-catacombs-ancient-Egypt-saved-flooding-thanks-4-3million-restoration.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Bill W4 on March 04, 2019, 10:45:53 am
Thanks, pictures are great.  Looks like a fascinating site.  Appears that they let people just  wander through which surprises me a bit.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on April 06, 2019, 03:09:48 am
Wonderful Allectus solidus found in UK:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6890247/Immaculate-coin-worth-100-000-discovered-amateur-metal-detectorist-Kent.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on May 10, 2019, 09:44:17 am
Fourth century hoard found in Lincolnshire:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7014337/Amateur-metal-detectorists-unearth-Britains-largest-haul-Roman-coins.html

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on May 18, 2019, 02:35:30 am
Radiate of Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus found during roadworks:

https://tinyurl.com/vhd5qe4
Title: Re: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: mauseus on May 18, 2019, 07:40:05 am
Hi,
I read this and laughed. Where did they get the bit about the second found in the UK? There were a dozen or so in the Normanby hoard alone.
Regards,
Mauseus
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on May 30, 2019, 01:23:11 pm
UK Police investigating illegal trade in historic treasures find hoard of Viking coins worth at least £500,000:

https://tinyurl.com/rptvjsf
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on June 11, 2019, 02:55:58 am
Rare (unique?) Carausius denarius found in UK:

https://tinyurl.com/wrkc6dx
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Jay GT4 on June 11, 2019, 07:11:32 am
That's pretty cool.  Strange though that a metal detectorist who has a collection of coins didn't recognize what it was for 30 years.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: curtislclay on June 11, 2019, 11:14:50 am
The rev. shows Salus seated feeding a serpent, but the legend is apparently FORTVNA....
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: okidoki on July 20, 2019, 04:34:36 am

A unique Roman inscription was found during archaeological excavations near Valkenburg in South Holland. This is a text on one of the poles of an old Roman road, along the current N206. According to the province, no such discovery has been made in the Netherlands before.

It is a inscription on a wooden pole of the second cohort of Roman citizens. That was a unit of the Roman army that acted as a contractor and carried out all kinds of construction work, Omroep West writes.

The text is 'COH II CR', which is the abbreviation for Cohors II Civium Romanorum. The inscription probably comes from the year 125 AD.

Systematically built
Curator Jasper de Bruin is enthusiastic about the find. "Until recently, it was not known whether the Roman road was built by soldiers, civilians, locals or perhaps slaves," he says.

"Now it appears that almost 2000 years ago, the second cohort of Roman citizens built the road at Valkenburg, which can be seen as the predecessor of the current Rhineland Route." According to De Bruin, this shows that the Roman road was built very systematically.

The excavations are part of the archaeological investigation of the Roman Limes, the ancient northern border of the Roman Empire. This find will be further investigated in the coming period. The results will be published next year.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2294232-unieke-romeinse-tekst-gevonden-bij-valkenburg-zh.html

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 02, 2019, 03:15:04 am
A Roman mosaic depicting a mythical chariot race has been fully uncovered in a Berkshire village:

https://tinyurl.com/y5ygmkt8
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on January 07, 2020, 02:42:24 am
Archaeologists find graves of high-status Romans in Somerset, UK:

https://tinyurl.com/yzy6nckt
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: cmcdon0923 on January 08, 2020, 10:10:43 pm
Interesting, and check out this one that was found in the "related stories" links a bit down that article's page....

https://tinyurl.com/ybdvshsj

I love the comment made by one of the archaeologists... " Somebody really, really didn’t like these guys,....”


Craig
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on January 26, 2020, 06:19:06 am
Medieval treasures uncovered – from the sludge of a London cesspit:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/26/medieval-treasures-sludge-cesspit-london
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: okidoki on January 27, 2020, 07:15:25 am
https://tinyurl.com/shbpmjk
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on February 02, 2020, 01:58:00 pm
This does not appear to be new so apologies if it has been reported before: Treasure hunters find Britain's largest ancient coin hoard after discovering 69,347 Roman and Celtic pieces buried 3ft under a hedge in Jersey:

https://tinyurl.com/r2luhnm
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: okidoki on February 02, 2020, 02:35:58 pm
i am stunned  +++
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: LordBest on February 22, 2020, 12:56:32 am
Tomb of Romulus re-discovered under the Curia Julia:

https://www.livescience.com/sarcophagus-romulus-discovered.html

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Altamura on February 22, 2020, 02:18:52 am
Interesting finding.

And interesting example of how the media are working today. You read "Tomb of Rome's mythical founder Romulus unearthed" large and bold in the headline, only later in the article you find a bit more modest "... most historians think he did not exist in reality …"  :-\.

Regards

Altamura
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: PMah on February 23, 2020, 12:06:39 am
I am not sure I'd say "journalists today"; I doubt any archaeological find has ever been reported at an expert level of accuracy or enthusiasm. "The Pompeii of.... [New Jersey]" is the usual reporting for decades, and as far back as Carter & Tut, Schliemann & Priam's Treasure, the hard facts don't draw eyeballs.  "Middle-aged scholar digging on summer grant funds 2 years ago observed stratifaction layer of broken pottery possibly consistent with theory published in another language 80 years ago" would be more realistic for most "finds".
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on March 17, 2020, 08:19:57 am
British Museum says metal detectorists found 1,311 treasures in the UK last year:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/mar/17/british-museum-says-metal-detectorists-found-1311-treasures-last-year
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: a on March 21, 2020, 07:57:10 am
‘Roman Biro’ – complete with joke – found at London building site

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/27/joke-on-roman-souvenir-bloomberg-building-site-city-of-london
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on July 09, 2020, 03:25:46 am
Discovery of 750-year-old seal used by medieval Pope in Shropshire:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8504471/Discovery-750-year-old-seal-medieval-pope-Shropshire-1-5millionth-British-public.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on December 24, 2020, 06:24:16 am
Birdwatcher stumbles upon £800,000 hoard of 2,000-year-old Celtic gold coins dating from time Boudicca:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9084609/Birdwatcher-stumbles-800-000-hoard-2-000-year-old-Celtic-gold-coins.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Bill W4 on December 24, 2020, 12:02:05 pm
Good on him; I'm lucky to see an uncommon bird.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on April 21, 2021, 05:24:53 pm
Roman artefacts dug up in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, including a bronze bust of Marcus Aurelius:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9495133/Roman-artefacts-dug-detectorists-tipped-sell-100-000.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on June 15, 2021, 02:38:21 am
‘Miniature Pompeii’ found beneath former cinema in Verona:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/15/miniature-pompeii-found-beneath-former-cinema-verona
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on August 31, 2021, 04:29:00 pm
Four trireme rams dating from the Punic Wars found off Sicily:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9943277/Archaeology-Four-450lb-ancient-Roman-battering-rams-recovered-coast-Sicily.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 10, 2021, 09:11:23 am
Rare bronze age coffin found in UK golf course pond:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/sep/10/rare-bronze-age-coffin-found-golf-course-pond-axe
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on September 23, 2021, 05:11:27 am
Amateur freedivers discover 53 perfectly-preserved Roman gold coins on the seabed off the coast of Alicante:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10020389/Amateur-freedivers-discover-53-perfectly-preserved-Roman-gold-coins-coast-Alicante.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on November 25, 2021, 03:10:48 am
Roman mosaic depicting battle from Homer's Iliad found in the UK:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10238719/Iliad-mosaic-Rutland-field-kind-UK.html

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on January 16, 2022, 03:50:37 pm
Treasure hunter strikes gold with discovery of 700-year-old Henry III coin:

A detectorist has uncovered just the eighth known example of England’s “first gold coinage”, with the piece expected to sell at auction for nearly half a million pounds.

The Henry III coin, minted in 1257, owes its value both to its rarity and the unique portrait of the monarch on its obverse side.

The coin carries a pre-sale estimate of £400,000 but past examples have sold for more than £500,000. It is the first of its kind found in more than 260 years.

It was found by an anonymous treasure hunter on his first detecting trip in a decade, near Hemyock, Devon.

The finder put it on Facebook, not knowing its true value before it was spotted by an expert.

Gregory Edmund, of the auctioneer Spink, told The Telegraph he spotted the post and “immediately told the finder to take it down because I said you're going to be inundated with every man and his dog to try trying to buy this off you for a fraction of what it's worth”.

Mr Edmund and the detectorist took the coin to be assessed by the British Museum, which confirmed its significance. As it is only a single coin and not part of a larger find, it was not covered by the Treasurers Act, meaning the finder was entitled to keep it.

The coin was the first gold coin minted in England since before the Norman Conquest. However, it proved deeply unpopular and of little wider use.

Henry III, who ordered the coins to be minted, had originally been saving gold for a campaign to place his son on the throne of the Kingdom of Sicily.

However, the growing threat of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last Welsh Prince of Wales, led Henry to instead use his personal treasure to fund an expensive military campaign across Offa’s Dyke.

Its use by the King to pay his many bills and creditors may explain why this example ended up in Devon.

The portrait of Henry III on the coin’s obverse was “radically new” according to Prof Carpenter. Rather than simply showing the head of the king, it depicted him “sitting elegantly on his throne” with his sceptre and orb.

UPDATE - the coin sold at auction for £648,000 or $873,000.
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on January 28, 2022, 04:33:04 pm
A medieval brooch (1150-1350) found in Wiltshire, UK. The roughly circular brooch has a bevelled edge that has part of a Christian devotional prayer inscribed on its four surfaces along a diameter of 24mm. The latin inscription translates as 'Hail Mary full of grace the Lord/is with thee/blessed art thou amongst women/and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Amen.'

The Hebrew letters A, G, L, and A on the inner inscription are believed to have amuletic properties, according to the coroner's report, invoked as a charm against fever during the medieval period.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10452457/Metal-detectorist-finds-unique-5-000-medieval-brooch-ploughed-field.html


Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on February 22, 2022, 04:00:44 pm
Fresh mosaic floors found in Roman Londinium: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10539029/Stunning-Roman-mosaic-discovered-near-Londons-Shard.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on February 24, 2022, 09:21:18 am
Anglo-Saxon 'Crispus' thrymsa discovered by detectorist in the UK:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10547237/Metal-detectorist-unearths-rare-gold-Anglo-Saxon-coin-worth-10-000-field-Cambridgeshire.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: SC on February 24, 2022, 05:30:38 pm
What a fantastic coin.  Imitation of Crisps legend and Roman helmet on one side, cross and Anglo-Saxon runes on the other....

SC
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: clueless on February 26, 2022, 04:47:11 am
This coin is interesting in another way, too. The engraver who made the dies had to be familiar with the coinage of Crispus quite some time after that coinage was struck.

Clueless
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: LordBest on March 01, 2022, 01:00:56 am
Volusian aureus found in Hungary:
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Excavators in Hungary have discovered a "very rare" gold Roman coin that features the face of a murdered Roman emperor.

The third-century coin depicts Emperor Volusianus, who co-ruled the Roman Empire for about two years with his father, until the emperor was assassinated at age 22 by his own soldiers. Because of Volusianus' short reign, coins bearing his face are rare. What's more, the coin's denomination is rare, as is finding gold coins from the Roman period in Hungary, said Máté Varga, an archaeologist at the University of Szeged in Hungary and head of the excavation.
https://www.livescience.com/rare-roman-gold-coin-hungary
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on March 02, 2022, 09:33:14 am
Rare ‘leopard’ coin found by Norfolk detectorist expected to sell for £140,000:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/02/rare-coin-unearthed-norfolk-reach-140000

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on May 18, 2022, 03:00:36 am
Hoard of 150 Roman coins dating back to 340 AD sells for £100,000 at auction:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10825797/Detectorists-rake-hoard-150-Roman-coins-sells-100-000.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: okidoki on June 20, 2022, 12:36:36 pm
https://www.gelderlander.nl/zevenaar/unieke-archeologische-vondst-romeinse-tempel-ontdekt-bij-herwen~a661ce6b/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on October 29, 2022, 05:58:29 pm
A 1,000-year-old gold coin commemorating Jesus Christ's 'Crown of Thorns' that was bought for £420 in 1992 has sold at auction for £54,000:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11368467/Gold-Jesus-coin-1-000-years-old-bought-450-1992-sells-54-000.html

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Altamura on November 01, 2022, 03:36:54 am
At Ephesos a new business area from early byzantine times has been excavated, including quite a number of coins :): https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/ephesos-more-than-1400-year-old-area-of-the-city-discovered-under-a-burnt-layer-2
(there can be found some more reports in the press).

Regards

Altamura
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Virgil H on November 01, 2022, 02:43:28 pm
This is simply amazing. This is what archaeologists dream of finding.

Virgil
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: wileyc on December 08, 2022, 02:14:39 pm
on a more sad note of awareness..


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/black-friday/index.html
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Virgil H on December 08, 2022, 02:20:00 pm
That truly is terrible, as the article says, a loss for history and for the finders who followed the law. Hopefully they will be recovered.

Virgil
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Altamura on December 09, 2022, 05:25:52 am
on a more sad note of awareness..

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/black-friday/index.html
I don't see anything related to archeology there  :-\.

Regards

Altamura
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: SC on December 09, 2022, 07:42:55 am
That's because the Mail index was pinned, not an actual article....

SC
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Callimachus on December 09, 2022, 11:06:40 am
on a more sad note of awareness..


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/black-friday/index.html
So since we can't see anything about here, how about if someone would summarize the article for us . .  .
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Virgil H on December 17, 2022, 09:11:42 pm
This is a different source, but pretty sure it is the story referenced.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roman-treasure-stolen-england-2227691

Virgil
Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on October 18, 2023, 03:40:06 pm
Gold coin discovered in Hampshire is stamped with the name 'Esunertos' - a previously unrecorded Iron Age ruler:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12644285/A-new-British-King-Gold-coin-discovered-Hampshire-stamped-Esunertos-previously-unrecorded-Iron-Age-ruler.html

Title: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Xenophon on February 22, 2024, 10:32:37 am
Hoard of 122 Anglo-Saxon coins found by two metal detectorists in Essex sells at auction for more than £325,000:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13113225/Talk-striking-gold-Hoard-122-Anglo-Saxon-coins-two-metal-detectorists-Essex-sells-auction-325-000.html

Title: Re: Re: Archaeological News
Post by: Joe Sermarini on March 07, 2024, 06:44:55 pm
Nice coins. I would not have expected a price that high.