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Issue 106/Italy/Travel

Travel: An Etruscan Renaissance in Florence

What? Go to Florence to visit an archaeological museum? What about the great monuments of the Renaissance, or the museums and galleries…

Issue 89/Italy/Rome/Travel

Travel: Ancient Rome’s first responders

Richard Hodges investigates pestilence and climate chaos in the eternal city The trams rumbling along the Viale Trastevere wake me. The bell…

Issue 89/Italy/Sicily

Gerace: Philippianus and his rural estate in late Roman Sicily

Few villas have been excavated in Sicily, but recent work at Gerace has revealed the name of the landowner from c.AD 350…

Crete/Cyprus/Features/Greece/Italy/Jordan

Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy

In 1640, a bronze tablet was discovered during construction work on a palace in Tiriolo, southern Italy. Dating from 186 BC, it…

Issue 88/Italy/Museum

National Archaeological Museum of Paestum

Fifty years ago, in June 1968, archaeologist Mario Napoli uncovered a beautifully painted tomb in a small necropolis just south of Paestum,…

Issue 88/Italy/Object Lesson

The sundial of Marcus Novius Tubula

What is it? This is a Roman stone sundial, a timekeeping device that had become quite common in the Roman world from…

Issue 85/Issues/Italy/Museum

Review: Museum of Ligurian Archaeology

Stretching down from France between the sea and the mountains, the Italian region of Liguria is home to a wide variety of…

Issue 85/Issues/Italy/Travel

Travel: The Arch of Malborghetto, Italy

Why was a victory monument erected 20km from Rome? David J Breeze explores the extraordinary circumstances that led to an unsung triumphal…

Issue 84/Italy/Travel

Travel: Molise, Italy

Searching for Samnites in the ‘Region of Little Cities’   Surprisingly few people have heard of Molise. Yet this is one of…

Issue 83/Sicily/Travel

Travel: Greek Temples of Sicily

Richard Hodges tours the island’s Greek temples. Sicily in February. Cheating winter with the smell of new grass and the first flowers…

Issue 81/Issues/Italy/Museum

Turin’s Egyptian Museum

Nadia Durrani and Andrew Selkirk visit Turin’s transformed Museo Egizio. When Turin’s Egyptian Museum (Museo Egizio) was opened in 1824, the hieroglyphic…

Issue 81/Issues/Italy/Sicily

Marzamemi Shipwreck: Moving Christian Architecture for Justinian’s Empire

Justin Leidwanger and Sebastiano Tusa dive into a 6th-century puzzle off the coast of Sicily.   In 1959, a local fisherman, searching…

Features/Issue 80/Issues/Italy

An Etruscan puzzle: Investigating the monumental tomb of Grotte Scalina

This highly unusual Etruscan tomb is linked to the Macedonian court of Alexander the Great and, a millennium later, proved a magnet…

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