pêcheur grec a attrapé dans ses filets le torse d’une statue antique en bronze représentant un cavalier entre les îles de Kos et de Kalymnos, dans le sud-est de la mer Égée, a indiqué lundi le ministère grec de la Culture.

Daté de la période hellénistique tardive, entre la fin du IIe et le début du [...]

NICOSIA, Cyprus —  An Italian archaeologist claimed Friday to have discovered Cyprus’ oldest religious site, which she said echoes descriptions in the Bible of temples in ancient Palestine.
Maria Rosaria Belgiorno said the 4,000-year-old triangular temple predates any other found on the east Mediterranean island by a millennium.
“For sure it’s the most ancient religious site on the [...]

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, March 28 (UPI) — A 4,000-year-old male human skeleton has been discovered in Tajikistan, experts say. 
The well-preserved skeleton was found by a group of local residents in the foothills near the Tajik village of Tudakavsh, ITAR-TASS reported Saturday.
The Russian news service reported that experts said the skeleton’s face-down posture indicates the man was [...]

An Italian archaeologist says she has discovered what is believed to be the oldest site of religious worship in Cyprus, a temple which is about 4,000 years old.
The find at the Pyrgos-Mavroraki site close to the southern city of Limassol predates any other discoveries in Cyprus by about 1,000 years, Italian archaeologist Maria Rosaria Belgiorno [...]

A piece of ironware excavated from a Turkish archaeological site is about 4,000 years old, making it the world’s oldest steel, Japanese archaeologists said on Thursday.
Archaeologists from the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan excavated the 5-centimetre piece at the Kaman-Kalehoyuk archaeological site in Turkey, about 100 kilometers southeast of Ankara, in 2000. The [...]

Iraq is suffering one of the worst droughts in decades. While this is bad news for farmers, it is good news for archaeologists in the country.The receding waters of the Euphrates River have revealed ancient archaeological sites, some of which were unknown until now. For Ratib Ali al-Kubaisi, the director of Anbar province’s Antiquities Department, [...]

Naples, March 17 – A new treasure from Herculaneum was unveiled in Naples on Tuesday, where it will join a major exhibition exploring life in the Ancient Roman town buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD. The show, running until April 13, already features over 150 artefacts and human remains uncovered over the last three centuries [...]

ne chambre funéraire ornée de peintures vieille de 3500 ans a été découverte à Louxor par un égyptologue espagnol, José Manuel Galan, a annoncé le Conseil supérieur espagnol de recherches scientifiques (CSIC).

Cette chambre, qui fait partie de la nécropole de Dra Abou El-Naga, est tapissée de dessins et hiéroglyphes tirés notamment du Livre des Morts, [...]

— A church that dates to the Byzantine period which is paved with breathtakingly beautiful mosaics and a dedicatory inscription was exposed in an archaeological excavation the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting near Moshav Nes-Harim, 5 kilometers east of Bet Shemesh (at the site of Horvat A-Diri), in the wake of plans to enlarge the [...]

Rare Iron Age artefacts buried as part of a religious offering have been unearthed by an amateur treasure hunter.
Two bronze bowls and a bronze wine strainer, described by an expert as of “great importance for the UK,” were found by Craig Mills in his home city of Newport, South Wales.
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