archaeology

August 3, 2014
Archaeologists discovered the Seated Mercury on this day in 1758 in the peristyle of the Villa of Papyri at Herculaneum .

June 22, 2014
thegetty : Prep for a Roman meal served up in A.D. 50.

June 12, 2014
The so-called Athlete of Fano, a Greek bronze found off the coast of Italy by fishermen in 1964, remains the subject of controversy between the Italian government and the Getty museum, which acquired the statue in 1977.

April 28, 2014
Art collector and politician Giuseppe Barracco was born on this day in 1829 in Calabria.

March 18, 2014
Great Pompeii Project trapped in bureaucratic limbo.

March 9, 2014
The so-called Athlete of Fano, a Greek bronze found off the coast of Italy by fisherman in 1964, is the subject of controversy between the Italian government and the Getty museum, which acquired the statue in 1977.

March 4, 2014
About sixty skeletons have been uncovered during renovations to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence .

January 27, 2014
Giovanni Nistri, credited with overseeing the return of the famous Euphronios krater from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to Italy, has been appointed to head the “Great Pompeii Project”—a €105m campaign to preserve the ancient site.

January 23, 2014
Cristina Ruiz and Javier Pes report in the Art Newspaper on Italy’s demand for the immediate return of antiquities once owned by the disgraced antiquities dealer Robin Symes , declared bankrupt in 2003.

November 30, 2013
The Digital Hadrian’s Villa Project was created by the World Heritage Laboratory between 2007 and 2012.