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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #100 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

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #101 on: May 29, 2011, 01:03:27 pm »
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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #102 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

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Re: Archaeological News
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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #104 on: September 05, 2011, 03:55:08 am »
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.


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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #105 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

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #106 on: June 26, 2012, 10:51:57 pm »

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Re: Archaeological News
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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #109 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.

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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.

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #110 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.

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #111 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
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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #112 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

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #113 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!

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« Reply #114 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.

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #115 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)


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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #116 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/

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« Reply #117 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

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #118 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)

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #119 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  :)

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« Reply #120 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.

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #121 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).

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« Reply #122 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

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #123 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.

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« Reply #124 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.

 

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