Conservative New Democracy MP and former deputy health minister Gerasimos Giakoumatos, suggested on Monday that the Acropolis and other archaeological sites be leased to private firms in a bid to bring much-needed revenue into the debt-ridden country. In comments made to Vima FM radio station, Giakoumatos claimed that such a move would not be humiliating [...]
Mexican archaeologists found some 3,000 cave paintings, some almost 2,000 years old, in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said. Sources at the institute said that the discoveries were made between August and October 2011, but were not announced until specialists confirmed their antiquity and completed their [...]
A man who has claimed ownership of the piece of land at Annigeri in Navalgund taluk where a large number of skulls were discovered during an excavation last year has sold it, even as the district administration and the Archaeology Survey of India (ASI) are corresponding with international institutions to determine the circumstances in which [...]
Chinese archaeologists recently found a palace dating back to about 3,600 years ago at the Erlitou Bronze Age site in Henan province. It is the best-preserved palace ever found at the site and may be the prototype for places of worship during the Shang dynasty. In the Erlitou site’s palace area, archaeologists found the rammed-earth [...]
The gold still glistened after a more than 1,000 years underground; the gemstones glinted at their first touch of sunlight, undimmed by a millennium in the dirt. “It’s a necklace,” said a Polish archaeologist breathless with excitement. “They’ve found a gold necklace!” As the fine grey sand of Afghanistan’s sun-bleached mountains was gently sieved away, [...]
Archaeologists digging in Rome’s Palatine Hill have found the remains of a large house that they believe might be the birthplace of Rome’s first emperor, Augustus. Announced at the end of a 10-year excavation, the finding was partly uncovered in 2006, when a team led by Clementina Panella, a professor at the University of Rome [...]
Archaeologists have deciphered a grey marble slab whose 800-year-old Arabic inscription makes it the only Crusader artifact in that language ever found in the Middle East, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said Monday. The inscription bears the name of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and the date “1229 of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus [...]
The Cultural Heritage and Landscape research team of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has discovered an encastellated mediaeval village beside the castle of Arganzón. The location, which was occupied in the IX or X centuries, can be considered a town of considerable importance, given it was built in a “castellated” style, one in [...]
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