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Venice lagoon reveals grim secrets

From the BBC: Venice lagoon reveals grim secrets. The Venetian authorities are surveying two ancient ships found beside the lost island of San Marco in Boccalama that disappeared beneath the rising...

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Newly unearthed cave may be linked to myth of Rome’s founding

From the International Herald Tribune: Newly unearthed cave may be linked to myth of Rome’s founding. Italian archaeologists have inched closer to unearthing the secrets behind one of Western...

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Medici philosopher’s mystery death is solved

From the Telegraph: Medici philosopher’s mystery death is solved. After 500 years, one of Renaissance Italy’s most enduring murder mysteries has been solved by forensic scientists. Ever since Giovanni...

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Ancient artifacts seized near Rome

From the Guardian: Ancient Artifacts Seized Near Rome. Police seized some 1,000 ancient artifacts from a wealthy Italian man’s country house outside Rome that were stolen from one of Emperor Trajan’s...

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Italian builders uncover 2,000-year-old tombs

From scotsman.com: Italian builders uncover 2,000-year-old tombs. Archaeologists were yesterday celebrating the discovery of 27 2,000-year-old tombs in Italy’s "Valley of the Dead". (…) Archaeologists...

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Thousand-year-old Lombard warrior skeleton discovered buried with horse in Italy

From The Telegraph: Thousand-year-old Lombard warrior skeleton discovered buried with horse in Italy. Italian archaeologists have discovered a perfectly preserved skeleton of a 1400-year-old Lombard...

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On Venice’s Grand Canal in a kayak

Dear heavens! These people kayaked through Venice. Part of me wants to shout "sacrilege!" and part of me wishes I’d thought of doing that. From the New York Times: On Venice’s Grand Canal in a Kayak....

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Beyond Pompeii: places swallowed by Vesuvius

From philly.com: Beyond Pompeii: Places swallowed by Vesuvius. Over several centuries, millions of tourists have visited Pompeii to acquaint themselves with the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius...

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Italy, anyone?

From the BBC: Sicily mayor offers bargain homes. A small town in western Sicily has come up with a revolutionary solution to solve its property problems. They are offering houses in the town, which...

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Italians vote for ugliest English words

From The Telegraph: Italians vote for ugliest English words. For years it was the French who worked themselves into a lather over their native tongue being infected by English. Now it is their southern...

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How the barbarians drove Romans to build Venice

From the Times: How the barbarians drove Romans to build Venice. The hidden ruins of an ancient lagoon city that was the ancestor of Venice have been unearthed by scientists using satellite imaging....

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Ostia’s ruins

From the New York Times: Archaeologists Unveil Majestic Roman Ruins That Rival Riches of Pompeii. The ruins of Ostia, an ancient Roman port, have never captured the public imagination in the same way...

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Wine flowing from Italian taps is hailed as a miracle

One of my fantasies has come true, but alas — for somebody else, not for me. Slashfood explains: When a woman in Marino, a small Italian town south of Rome, turned on her kitchen tap, she got a spurt...

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Found: Tomb of the general who inspired ‘Gladiator’

From The Independent: Found: Tomb of the general who inspired ‘Gladiator’. Natural disaster makes for great archaelogy. Pompeii and Herculaneum we owe to the fury of Vesuvius – and today Italy’s...

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Bag designed by Leonardo Da Vinci

From discovery.com: Leonardo Da Vinci: Bag Designer. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) was an artist, inventor, scientist, architect, engineer, writer and even a musician. Now we know that he was also a...

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Santa Maria Maggiore

Oooh, it’s Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, in one of those Quicktime panorama things. Give it a moment to load, then click, hold, and drag your mouse in any direction. Amazing, isn’t it? Zoom in on any...

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Etruscans: migrants to Italy?

From the New York Times: DNA Boosts Herodotus’ Account of Etruscans as Migrants to Italy. Geneticists have added an edge to a 2,500-year-old debate over the origin of the Etruscans, a people whose...

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Drawing Rome from memory

Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic savant. Here he’s shown drawing the Eternal City, having seen it once from a helicopter. You’ll want to see Stephen Wiltshire’s website, too – read about his life, his...

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Roman towns built on astronomically-aligned grids?

From discovery.com: Roman Towns Built With Astronomy Ancient Romans built their towns using astronomically aligned grids, an Italian study has concluded. Published recently on the physics Web site,...

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Roman remains threaten metro

From the Guardian: Roman remains threaten metro. A planned hi-tech driverless underground railway line set to bring desperately needed transport links to the historic heart of Rome has run into a...

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Cracks threaten Rome’s majesty

From the BBC: Cracks threaten Rome’s majesty. The Emperor Augustus said he found Rome a city of brick – and he left it a city of marble. But 2,000 years on, the cracks in his legacy are beginning to...

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Roman temple found under president’s house

From Monsters and Critics: Roman temple found under president’s house. An Italian archaeologist says he believes that the presidential palace in Rome is sitting on top of a temple to the Roman god...

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More clues in the legend (or is it fact?) of Romulus

From the New York Times: More Clues in the Legend (or Is It Fact?) of Romulus. The story of Romulus and Remus is almost as old as Rome. The orphan twins were suckled by a she-wolf in a cave on the...

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Mozzarella di bufala

One of the things I miss about Italy is the bocconcini made from water buffalo milk — mozzarella di bufala. It’s splendid, and almost impossible to get in Canada, from what I’ve seen. (Of course you...

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Aqua Tofana: slow-poisoning and husband killing in 17th century Italy

From A Blast From the Past: Aqua Tofana: slow-poisoning and husband killing in 17th century Italy. The story as it is commonly told is this: Aqua Tofana was the creation of a Sicilian woman named...

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