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A study by Şengül Dilek Ful follows Medusa from coins of Mithradates VI to tombstones and trinkets in Tokat Province. Whether the coins were propaganda is still open to discussion.
21 Oct 2026National Museums Scotland has unveiled a facial reconstruction of a man who died at Inveresk, near Edinburgh, between AD 140 and 165. His skull goes on show in November.
21 Oct 2026Excavators at Castelo dos Mouros on Ons Island, Galicia, report a wall of apparent Iron Age date lying beneath the levels of use of a Roman-period room, outside the hillfort's rampart.
21 Oct 2026A new article in the Annual of the British School at Athens reads the cult of Arsinoe II as a link between Cypriot communities and Ptolemaic rule, and argues that one of the island's three Arsinoe towns should probably be dropped.
21 Oct 2026A third-century silver amulet from Roman Nida carries a prayer to Jesus. Scholar Santiago Guijarro argues it shows Christian words reached the frontier, but that it tells us rather less about what its wearer believed.
21 Oct 2026The National Archaeological Museum in Athens announced on 19 October that "Pylos of Nestor: A Mycenaean Kingdom Revealed" will run until the end of January 2027. Here is what the show holds and when it is open.
21 Oct 2026A study of 79 fingerprints on 36 Terracotta Army figures estimates that about 45% came from adult men. The authors say the percentages are not a headcount of workers.
21 Oct 2026The Soprintendenza says new excavations at the Sanctuary of Demeter at Macchia delle Valli, near Vetralla, push evidence of use back to protohistory. The site reopens to the public on Saturday 24 October 2026.
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