Hegra and Jabal Ikmah, Saudia Arabia
Although 30,000 archaeological sites have been identified in the AlUla area of Saudi Arabia, only 8 are currently open to visitors: Jabal Ikmah, which has hundreds of inscriptions; Hegra, a massive site settled during the Nabatean and Roman times; Qurh, an early Islamic city; Dadan, which dates from the 8th-1st centuries BCE; Tayma and Khaybar, oasis settlements which have been continuously inhabited…
2,000-year-old lecture hall unearthed in Agrigento is the oldest of its kind in the Greek world
A team of international archaeologists has unearthed a well-preserved ancient Greek lecture hall in Agrigento, Sicily. The discovery, made during the February–April 2025 excavations, was carried out by Prof. Dr. Monika Trümper and Dr. Thomas Lappi of the Free University of Berlin in collaboration with the Politecnico di Bari and the Parco Archeologico Valle dei […]
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Where to Find the World’s Oldest Map of the Biblical Middle East
The town of Madaba in Jordan is home to the early Byzantine Saint George’s Church, which itself houses something quite incredible. In History Hit documentary The Jordan: A River Through Time, historian Dan Snow visits a site which has long been associated with early Christianity and the making of mosaics. It is still possible to … Continued
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At Kalkriese, Archaeology Reveals Evidence of Rome’s Most Famous Defeat
2000 years ago, deep in the forests of Germany, a Roman army walked into a trap. It had been set by the Germanic warlord Arminius, a man they thought was their friend, and resulted in a catastrophic Roman defeat remembered as the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. In History Hit documentary Rome’s Disaster, Tristan Hughes heads … Continued
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‘Peering into the eyes of the past’: reconstruction reveals face of woman who lived before Trojan war
Digital technology reveals ‘incredibly modern’ royal who lived 3,500 years ago in kingdom associated with Helen of TroyShe lived around 3,500 years ago – but facial reconstruction technology has brought a woman from late bronze age Mycenae back to life.The woman was in her mid-30s when she was buried in a royal cemetery between the 16th and 17th centuries BC. The site was uncovered in the 1950s on the Greek mainland at Mycenae, the legendary seat of Homer’s King Agamemnon. Continue reading…
Greek vase ‘looted’ in Italy removed from sale by London gallery
Contact from the Observer prompts withdrawal as dealers urged to do more to stop illicit trade in antiquitiesA London antiquities dealer has withdrawn an ancient Greek amphora from sale after evidence arose that links it to a notorious smuggler.The Kallos Gallery in Mayfair, London, has removed a black-figure amphora – a jar with two handles and a narrow neck made around 550BC – from sale after the Observer contacted it about concerns raised by an expert in the illegal trade of antiquities. Continue reading…
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Further Returns to Türkiye
Septimius Severus. Source: Ny Carlsberg GlyptotekIt has been announced that the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen will be returning the bronze head of Septimius Severus to Türkiye (“The Glyptotek returns Roman bronze portrait to Türkiye”, press release, November 26, 2024). It forms part of a series of imperial bronze statues from the sebasteion at Bubon: the press release notes Bubon returns from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fordham Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Shelby White Collection. The head was acquired from Robert Hecht.This will put increased pressure on the Cleveland Museum of Art over the claims relating to the bronze “Marcus Aurelius” that has been linked in The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art to Bubon (A. P. Kozloff, “Bubon: a re-assessment of the provenance,” Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74 [1987] 130-43).The announcement from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek includes 48 architectural terracottas linked to Düver, and also acquired from Hecht. This will put pressure on other museums in Europe, North America and beyond to return the Düver terracottas that they acquired.Details of previous returns from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek can be found in David W. J. Gill, “The Returns from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen,” in Artwashing the Past: Context Matters (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024), 27–31.
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Dacian silver treasure hoard unearthed in Romania’s Mureș County
In a remarkable find that is rewriting the history of ancient Dacian presence in central Romania, a hoard of silver artifacts has been discovered near the commune of Breaza in Mureș County. The discovery, made by amateur metal detectorists Dionisie-Aurel Moldovan and Sebastian-Adrian Zăhan, is the first definite evidence of a Dacian settlement in the […]
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Researchers analyze 4,000 Roman bricks to uncover the building secrets of the ancient metropolis of Trier
A new interdisciplinary research project will investigate the organization of ancient building material production in the Roman city of Trier, an important city in the northern provinces of the empire. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has funded €340,000 for two years to a team of scientists from the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Goethe University Frankfurt, and […]
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There was no compulsory state education for children in any of the western provinces of the Roman Empire. The primary sources are sparse when it comes to the education in Roman Spain, and while some scholars argue for a network of schools, others suggest that in the remoter areas of Spain sourcing Latin and Greek speaking teachers may have been difficult, and Roman education had geographical limitations…