Italy

See also:

• Arts: Classical Studies  (445)
• Regional: Europe: Italy: Society and Culture: History  (20)
• World: Italiano: Scienza: Scienze Sociali: Archeologia: Roma Antica  (21)

• Anglo-American Project in Pompeii - A multi-disciplinary excavation and survey of Insula VI,1, at Pompeii by the University of Bradford. Preliminary report, field school information.
• The Arch of Constantine - Illustrated description of the arch which was erected to celebrate Constantine I's victory at the Milvian Bridge in 312 CE. Includes bibliography and over 60 photographs.
• Archeopollino - Archaeology of the National Park of Pollino in Calabria, Italy. Descriptions and photo galleries of Greek, Roman, Enotrian, Byzantine and Longobards sites.
• Campanaio, Sicily: A Geophysical Survey 1995 - A geophysical evaluation in southern Sicily by Bournemouth University to identify industrial activity in the Roman rural settlement.
• The Capitoline Hill - Detailed description of the history and monuments of the Capitoline Hill in antiquity, from the Capitoline Museums. Includes maps and photographs.
• Capitolium - Official website of the archaeological site of the Imperial Forums, Rome. Includes maps, a virtual tour, and information on life in ancient Rome.
• Capo Alfiere - Capo Alfiere is the name of a Neolithic site located on a small headland on the eastern coast of Calabria.
• Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria - 1848 volume by George Dennis. The complete work online. 1165 pages, engravings, maps, and plans.
• 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 Paolo Notini allowed us to recognize two Neolithic sites in Pieve Fosciana commune that have been excavated in 1995-1997.
• Horace's Villa Project - Prof. Bernard Frischer explains his excavations of the villa near Licenza thought to be that of the Roman poet Horace. Reports on each season's work, drawings and a virtual tour.
• Horace's Villa Project - Excavations undertaken there from 1997 to 2001. Videos and images.
• The Mesolithic burial of Mezzocorona - An illustrated description of a well preserved burial at Mezzocorona, near Trento in Italy.
• Model of Rome - Paul Bigot's zoomable scale model of ancient Rome, at the University of Caen in France, with descriptions of monuments.
• Ostia - The Harbour of Ancient Rome - Provides detailed information for professional archaeologists and historians, for students of Roman archaeology and history, and for interested lay-people. Maintained by the Internet Group Ostia (IGO).
• Ostia Antica - The harbor of the ancient Rome. Photos, story and links.
• Pompeii Forum Project - An archaeologically based research project that documents the design and decoration of the forum of Pompeii and addresses issues of urban history and design.
• Pompeii Interactive - A CD-ROM exploring Pompeii with photographs, virtual reality, maps, and information. Online preview includes the history of the discovery of Pompeii, with biographies of the archaeologists involved.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Roman Villa of Piazza Armerina, Sicily - An illustrated room-by-room description by René Seindal of the villa with the richest collection of late Roman mosaics. Includes bibliography, plan and more than 200 photographs.
• Roman Water-Mills on the Janiculum Hill, Rome - Andrew Wilson of Oxford University describes the excavation in 1998 of several mill-wheels installed in two mill-races parallel to the main channel of the Aqua Traiana.
• The Scandinavian-Sicilian Expedition - International excavations at a 700 to 400 BCE hillfort.
• 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.
• Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei - Official site of the excavations of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Boscoreale, Oplontis and Stabia (in English and Italian).
• A Study Of The Topography And Municipal History Of Praeneste - E-text of 1908 book by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin on this member of the Latin League.
• Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome - Samuel Ball Platner's "A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome" from 1929 is still a valuable resource on the monuments of ancient Rome. LacusCurtius features major parts of the work, searchable and extensively interlinked.
• 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.
• Tyrol Museum of Archaelogy - Pictures and background material about Oetzi, the iceman, from the museum where he is exhibited.
• The University of Arizona Excavations at Lugnano Teverina, Italy - David Soren, Professor of Classics, describes the first century B.C. Roman villa excavated in 1988 on the hill known as Poggio Gramignano southwest of the town.

• Pompei discovery for Swedish archeologists - From The Local, Swedish archeologists have discovered a Stone Age settlement covered in ash under the ruins of the ancient city of Pompei, indicating that the volcano Vesuvius engulfed the area in lava more than 3,500 years before the famous 79 AD eruption. (April 16, 2005)
• Ancient Carved 'Faces' Found - From BBC, Italian scientist says he has found a carved stone head that is 200,000 years old. (October 11, 2003)
• 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. (July 13, 2003)
• 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. (September 16, 2002)
• 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. (2002)
• A Cache of Vintage Ships - An illustrated article by Andrew Slaymana in Archaeology on the ancient Roman ships unearthed at Pisa, Italy. (July, 1999)