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March 14 - May 18, 2025. Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, 1023 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA. On view by appointment, click here. Visions of Volterra invites you on a journey where innovation meets history, unveiling digital preservation efforts in this ancient Italian city. At the heart of the exhibit is Volterra’s recently discovered Rom...

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Leonardo da Vinci excelled in the fields of art and science, but the Italian polymath was also a highly skilled expert in military structures and defensive systems, breaking new ground in the strategy of warfare during the Renaissance with his designs and inventions. Now, scientists have uncovered a hidden feature underneath a medieval castle in Mi...

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The United States will return as many as 107 ancient artifacts toItaly : this was announced in these hours by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. The total value of the artifacts amounts to 1.2 million euros: these objects were recovered as a result of several ongoing criminal investigations and had previously been trafficked by several...

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Archaeologists working in Pompeii have unearthed a series of rare, almost life-size frescoes. The discovery provides new clues into the religious life of the city before its destruction by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. It includes a large frieze extending across three walls of a banquet hall. The vivid images depict initiation rites for...

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For the first time in history, archaeologists have mapped an entire ancient Roman city using ground-penetrating radar. According to The Guardian, the buried town of Falerii Novi contained a bathhouse, theater, several temples and shops, and a large monument of a kind experts have never seen before. Once a proud, 75-acre outpost 31 miles north of Ro...

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Workers were hardly surprised when they stumbled upon ancient ruins in the Italian town of Rimini in 1989. Now a popular tourist destination along the Adriatic coast, Rimini—or Ariminum in ancient times—had been a major Roman town for centuries, and the modern city is strewn with monuments from that period. What the workers found that spring day, h...

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Italian archaeologists recently uncovered a "monumental necropolis" that appeared to honor an elite class of people thousands of years ago, provincial officials announced this month. The ancient cemetery found in Trento, a northern Alpine city, includes at least 200 individual tombs, which experts believe date back to the early Iron Age, a pre-Roma...

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Can you believe it? They’ve dug up a warrior’s tomb from way back in the 4th century BC in Italy! It happened during some building work, which is crazy, isn’t it? Archaeologists are super excited because it’s giving them a real glimpse into what life was like all those years ago. So, some builders were working on a piece of land near Padula, gettin...

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Rome authorities this month opened a new archaeological park and museum in the shadow of the Colosseum that features an original marble map of Ancient Rome that visitors can literally walk over. The opening of the Archaeological Park of the Celio and the new Museum of the Forma Urbis is part of a bigger project to develop the hilly area around the...

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A familiar face has resurfaced from the ruins of an ancient Greek city in Italy. Archaeologists in Sicily have discovered what they believe to be an ancient Roman mask mould depicting the iconic Medusa. Under the direction of Roberto Sciarratta, they unearthed the mould in a building from the late Republican period (133 to 31 BCE) in the ruins of F...

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