Monday, September 5, 2011

Gladiator school discovered in Carnuntum

Past Horizons: "A remarkable discovery has been made by an international team from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI-ArchPro), together with the Archaeological Park Carnuntum, using state-of-the-art ground penetrating radar."

Locals find ancient warships off Sicily

KeysNews.com: "For thousands of years the remnants of the final battle of the first Punic War lay undisturbed off the coast of Sicily, until last week when a Stock Island-based research firm raised artifacts from the seafloor that historians say provide clues as to how the largest conflicts in antiquity were waged."

Rome monuments attacked by vandals

BBC News: "Three historic monuments have been attacked by vandals in the Italian capital, Rome."