Archaeologists with the Egyptian-Italian Mission At West Aswan (EIMAWA) have discovered 33 Greco-Roman family tombs on the side of a rocky hill in western Aswan near the Mausoleum of the Aga Khan. The burials date to between 6th century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. and contain mummified remains that promise to shed new light … Read the full post →"33 Greco-Roman family tombs found in Aswan"
An excavation of a settlement from Late Antiquity in Irschen, southern Austria, has uncovered a rare carved ivory pyx (a small round container used to carry Communion wafers or holy relics) from the 6th century. There are only 40 examples of this type of pyx known to survive in the world, and this the first … Read the full post →" 1,500-year-old ivory pyx found in Austria"
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired 146 rare Charleston Slave Badges, the largest and most complete set known. It contains one badge for every year between 1800 and 1865, and the only two badges known that were stamped with the name of the enslaved person. Almost half of all … Read the full post →"Smithsonian acquires, digitizes largest collection of Charleston Slave Badges"
A bronze bust of the Roman emperor Caligula that is small in size but large in historical significance has been rediscovered 200 years after it fell into obscurity. Dr. Silvia Davoli, curator at Strawberry Hill House, the stately home in Twickenham built by author and MP Horace Mann, identified the bust in the Schroder Collection … Read the full post →"Tiny bronze Caligula rediscovered after 200 years"