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» 'Italian Stonehenge' Found on Mountain - From the Telegraph, a series of prehistoric stone structures, reminiscent of Stonehenge but taller and possibly earlier, have been located 3,500ft above sea level on a mountain in Calabria, southern Italy.
» Ancient Carved 'Faces' Found - From BBC, Italian scientist says he has found a carved stone head that is 200,000 years old.
» Campanaio, Sicily: A Geophysical Survey 1995 - A geophysical evaluation in southern Sicily by Bournemouth University to identify industrial activity in the Roman rural settlement.
» Capo Alfiere - Capo Alfiere is the name of a Neolithic site located on a small headland on the eastern coast of Calabria.
» Carbonia - The Phoenician and Punic town stands on a hill whose history dates back to the Neolithic (as the presence of the Domus de Janas witnesses) and after to the Nuragic Age.
» Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria - 1848 volume by George Dennis. The complete work online. 1165 pages, engravings, maps, and plans.
» DNA Results Could ID Columbus - From Discovery Channel, two sets of DNA detectives prepare to put Christopher Columbus' finally to rest.
» DNA reveals how the Italian Iceman went down fighting - From the Independent, Iceman bore traces of the blood of four other men on his weapons and clothes, three of whom he had killed or wounded.
» Death of the Iceman - Provides documentary about Oetzi, the Iceman. Includes transcripts of BBC documentery.
» First Ancient Neolithic Finds from Garfagnana - The Upper and Middle valley of Serchio river, between Apuane Alps and Northern Appennines has been known for a long time because of the great number of Final Epigravettian and Mesolithic sites, but only recently the archaeological researches performed by
» Horace's Farmhouse Found Beneath Horace's villa Site - Attempt to answer whether the Roman poet and the satirist Horace live in a modest farmhouse, as he tells us in his writings, or in a 20,000-square-foot villa, which most archaeologists have attributed to him.
» I Fani - Maps and images from this Bronze Age through Archaic Period site.
» Iceman's Final Meal - From the BBC, the last two meals eaten by the 5,300-year-old iceman, dubbed Oetzi, have been revealed by scientists.
» Iron Age Burial Site Unearthed - From Discovery Channel, workers fixing the sewers of a small Tuscan village have discovered a mysterious statue stelae which may lead to a large Iron Age warrior cemetery.
» Man from the Hauslabjoch - Research overview about the iceman provided by the anatomical institute of Innsbruck.
» Rock Art and Petroglyphs in Valcamonica - Footsteps of Man Archaeological Society is investigating prehistoric petrogyphs in the Alps. Clickable map leads to images. Descriptions of sites and periods.
» Rockart at the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici (CCSP) - Includes: 1500+ pages of rock art information,images, descriptions, discussion, and links.
» Roman gold mine of Bessa - Alberto Vaudagna's description of the archaeology, history and geology of this area in Piedmont, with images and bibliography. Includes a 2nd century BCE gold mine and Protohistoric rock art.
» Rome Church Opens After Centuries Under Rubble - From MSNBC, after 12 centuries under rubble and 24 years of restoration Rome opened the doors to Santa Maria Antiqua, the oldest church in the Roman Forum's ancient ruins and its rare collection of early medieval art.
» Sicilian-Scandinavian Archaeological Project - An international collaborative project investigates Monte Polizzo, an early Iron Age settlement in the NW of Sicily. Participants, landscape survey, fieldwork, finds and archaeobotony.
» The Mesolithic Burial of Mezzocorona - The archaeological site of Borgonuovo was discovered in 1991 by Leone Merchiori and Remo Carli during digging works for the construction of a terrace wall, which truncated the anthropic deposit.
» The Scandinavian-Sicilian Expedition - International excavations at a 700 to 400 BCE hillfort.
» The Troina Project - The University of Cambridge is investigating the archaeological history of the Troina region in Sicily. The team, regional survey and analysis, excavations at Casa Sollima - a prehistoric house.
» Tuscan Mystery to be Unearthed - From the Discovery Channel, archaeological digging might soon unveil the mystery surrounding a sword buried in a Gothic abbey in Tuscany.
» Tyrol Museum of Archaelogy - Pictures and background material about Oetzi, the iceman, from the museum where he is exhibited.