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The discovery of the Riace bronze warriors by a humble diver (or, to be precise, almost simultaneously with the discovery of the same sculptures by four boys), though reckoned among the most precious finds, remains a rather mysterious one

The discovery of the Riace bronze warriors by a humble diver (or, to be precise, almost simultaneously with the discovery of the same sculptures by four boys), though reckoned among the most precious finds, remains a rather mysterious one. Even 47 years on, the circumstances in which the statues were

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The Riace Warriors, bronze Greek statues found in Calabria on 16 August 1972

Do you remember one of the most touching scenes in the drama "Call Me by Your Name", with the bronze handshake of Elio and Oliver? André Aciman may well have drawn inspiration from the story of the discovery of the Riace Warriors on the shore of the Ionian

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In this connection I cannot help recalling my address to an archaeological conference a couple of years ago, when I proposed borrowing the American practice of preserving rock art in situ by planting devilishly thorny…

In this connection I cannot help recalling my address to an archaeological conference a couple of years ago, when I proposed borrowing the American practice of preserving rock art in situ by planting devilishly thorny plants that would bar vandals from direct access to the surface of the stone. For

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During lockdown archaeologists were not idle: one of them, look, was digging in his own garden and turned up Neolithic arrowheads and Roman pottery

During lockdown archaeologists were not idle: one of them, look, was digging in his own garden and turned up Neolithic arrowheads and Roman pottery. I had less luck with finds, though once I did come across a genuine Stone Age tool, but otherwise it was nineteenth-century coins and some

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It seems the Metropolitan Museum's holdings have yielded the answer to how a centaur wears trousers after all, courtesy of a bronze statuette of a centaur and a man from 750 BC

It seems the Metropolitan Museum's holdings have yielded the answer to how a centaur wears trousers after all, courtesy of a bronze statuette of a centaur and a man from 750 BC. Or is this the wrong sort of centaur?

A fig tree's foliage hangs down from a stone vault inside an ancient structure, with a park and houses visible beyond.

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A fig tree grows upside down in the Baiae Baths Archaeological Park on the Bay of Naples

A fig tree that grows upside down. The Archaeological Park of the Baths of Baiae, on the shore of the Bay of Naples. The tree is about 20 years old. Such an unusual fig

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1894: The Unveiling of the Statue of Antinous at Delphi

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Tomb of Henry VIII, Charles I and Jane Seymour beneath St George's Chapel at Windsor

In this vault rest the remains of Queen Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII, King Charles I and an infant of Queen Anne. A little crowded for a single burial. The tomb beneath St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle was discovered by chance, during excavations for a secret underground

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Ancient doors of the Temple of Romulus in the Roman Forum, built in 307

Another set of ancient Roman doors has kept its original position and stands to this day in the Forum, in the Temple of Romulus, which is, first and foremost, remarkable precisely for these most ancient doors. True, the doorways are partly bricked up, and the doors themselves are not usually

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An Eighteenth-Century Drawing of a Fresco at Pompeii

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The Ancient History of Cities Lives On in Their Layout

The ancient history of cities lives on in their layout. One of the most beautiful squares in Rome, Piazza Navona, owes its rounded northern end to the fact that in 46 BC Julius Caesar built a stadium here, which the Emperor Domitian later considerably enlarged, giving it the shape of

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Tarquinius Priscus, the Temple of Jupiter and the legend of how the Capitol got its name

According to legend, during the war with the Sabines the Roman king Tarquinius Priscus vowed to build in Rome a temple in honour of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva: by ancient Etruscan tradition, the sanctuary of the principal divine triad was raised on the dominant height of the city. Of course,