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Albania’s precious underwater heritage
The rich history of Albania, ancient Illyria is scarcely known and has been only occasionally explored (see: Looking for Illyrian remains in Albania). Yet there is much more archaeology to be found...
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High stakes at Corinth
When Philip was proclaimed leader of all the Greeks at Corinth, he was clever enough to insert a clause in the treaty making his title hereditary. Each state individually had sworn not to harm any...
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The preservation of Volubilis, a step in the right direction
When I visited Volubilis a few years ago (see: Volubilis in Morocco, hardly known), I expressed my disappointment about the overall poor condition and obvious neglect of the site. Excavations here had...
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Thracian Tombs at Doxipara, Greece
Thrace is generally associated with Bulgaria but originally its borders extended from the Istros River (now the Danube forming the border between Bulgaria and Romania) to the Aegean Sea, and from the...
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Exploring the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
It is not common knowledge that many relics of the powerful MacedonianKingdom are being kept at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The most precious grave goods from all over Macedonia and from...
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Excavation results from Magnesia-on-the-Meander
Magnesia-on-the Meander is one of the lesser known archaeological sites in western Turkey. The Germans were the first to resurrect the site from its ashes so to speak at the end of the 19th century....
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The new Uşak Archaeology Museum
A few years ago when I visited the Archaeological Museum of Ankara, I was surprised to find a gold brooch of a winged seahorse set in the spotlights as there had been a lot of commotion about this...
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Alexandre le Grand by Gustave Droysen
This specific book, Alexandre le Grand by Gustave Droysen (ISBN 2-87027-077-1), is not much known among the admirers of Alexander the Great and certainly not to the English speaking public.As a native...
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Tel-Gomel - in other words, Gaugamela
It is all in the name but it needs to be proved. Linguistically, Gaugamela has already been associated by scholars and archaeologists with Tel Gomel or Gammagara or Gir-e Gomel or Gogomel located some...
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Importance of the Meander River (western Turkey)
The River Meander in Asia Minor played an important role in the history of Miletusand Priene because its large alluvial deposits completely changed the landscape. Miletus in particular had two harbors...
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Achaemenid Palace found in Northern Turkey
It is still early days but it appears that remains of an AchaemenidPalace are surfacing from excavations at the Oluz Mound near Amasya which lies some 125 km south of Samsun.[Picture from Archaeology...
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An update on the tomb of King Hecatomnos
Back in 2010, the discovery of the monumental sarcophagus belonging to King Hecatomnosmade headlines as a result of illegal digging in the area of Milas, Mylasa in antiquity (see: Sensational...
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After Tillya Tepe, a gold treasure from Eastern Kazakhstan
The remote TarbagataiMountains in eastern Kazakhstan have kept their secret for 2,800 years, hiding a stash of “royal gold” and other precious items inside a burial mound.[Picture from Archaeology News...
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What is the Peraia of Samothrace?
The Peraia of Samothrace translates as “the land opposite Samothrace” and refers to a series of colonies founded by Samothrace on the mainland north of the island, in this case along the coastline of...
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Alexander bust to be returned to Rome
At some time before 1959, a head of Alexander the Great found during the excavations of the Forum Romanum in Rome in the early 1900's was stolen from the ForenseMuseum in that city. [Picture from...
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Many ancient shipwrecks found in the Greek waters
The twenty islands of Fourni in the Eastern Aegean are just one of so many clusters that can be found is those waters. It seems that the narrow passage between the islands create sudden windstorms and...
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On several occasions, I brought up the matter of the disastrous consequences of flooding our history through the construction of dams on major rivers. I have developed the pros and cons in earlier...
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Laodicea, an update on the works in progress
As announced last year (see: Laodicea, great works in progress!), excavations of the area around the city's sacred agora and the adjacent temple have exposed a row of colossal columns from under seven...
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Oldest Greek shipwreck found in the Black Sea
The diving season of 2018 has come to a close and it seems we are being flooded with ever more news about shipwrecks discovered all over the Mediterranean.This time, a Greek shipwreck from 400 BC found...
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The Histories by Polybius, A new translation by Robin Waterfield
The Histories by Polybius (ISBN 978-0199534708) are far less known than for instance The Histories by Herodotus and cover an entirely different period. As a result, the author and his book merit to be...
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