Founded by Tarquinia in the last quarter of the 4th century BC, the city of Musarna (44°24'43.44 "N - 11°58'35.40 "E) occupies a central position within the vast territory of the great Etruscan metropolis. Along with other contemporary foundations, it was intended simultaneously to counter the Roman advance and to exploit the agricultural resources of the hinterland. Research carried out on the site by the École française de Rome between 1983 and 2003 has enabled to reconstruct the rigorously orthogonal layout of the city, to excavate several sectors of the settlement, to study the...

Excavations by Małgorzata Grębska-Kulow in 2003, 2009; Geomagnetic surveys by Petar Zidarov in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

The grant will be used for the preparation of the final publication of the archeological and geomagnetic reports of three Neolithic sites: Brezhani (41°51'N, 23°11'E), Drenkovo I ...

The village of Hotnitsa is part of Veliko Tarnovo municipality in the central part of Northern Bulgaria. It is situated some 14 km northeast from the municipal center.

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In the hills northwest of the modern city of Durrës (Albania), the ancient Epidamne-Dyrrhachion, Vangjel Toçi unearthed from May 1970 to October 1971 a huge votive deposit dating from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period: about 1.8 t of figurative terracotta fragments with a majority of protomai (probably the largest find of this kind in the Mediterranean world), about 4 t of ceramic shards, more than 600 bronze coins, as well as some fragments of stone sculptures and bronze objects. The...

The Domitian villa, located in the comune of Sabaudia (LT) in Italy is a majestic, long living, roman imperial residence that occupies a peninsula of 46 hectares facing from east the Lake of Paola. This villa, as important and articulated as the Adrian’s one, is a case study of considerable value both from an archaeological and methodological point of view. The first documented excavations at the Villa were undertaken during the papacy of Innocent XIII (1721-1724). This work, conducted by Mons. Collicola...