Archaeology News Report


Unlocking the secrets of the ancient coastal Maya
An interdisciplinary and international team of researchers is working to uncover new insights about the dynamic interplay between social and natural processes that shaped life for these ancient, Maya people over the last 3,000 years. The team has just released a new article in the *Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology* summarizing their findings to date. “The Proyecto Costa Escondida,” which translates into English as the ‘hidden coast’ project, has focused on the ancient Maya port sites of Vista Alegre and Conil. “We chose the project name because, the coast is literally hid... read more
Archaeology News Report6 days ago
Tooth isotopes offer window into South Australia’s early colonial history
Published in Australian Archaeology, the new research involved isotope analysis of teeth excavated from graves to determine how many people buried were born in South Australia or Britain, as part of scientific efforts by Flinders University experts deploying this technique for the first time in the state. The archaeologists studied the origin of people in a free ground section of the cemetery to help construct a clear picture of colonial migration before 1880. Lead Author and Flinders University Masters student, Christine Adams, says tooth enamel and dentine samples from the g... read more
Archaeology News Report1 week ago
New genetic research on remote Pacific islands yields surprising findings on world’s earliest seafarers
New genetic research from remote islands in the Pacific offers fresh insights into the ancestry and culture of the world’s earliest seafarers, including family structure, social customs, and the ancestral populations of the people living there today. The work, described in the journal *Science*, reveals five previously undocumented migrations into a subregion of this area and suggests that about 2,500 to 3,500 years ago early inhabitants of these Pacific islands — including Guam in the northern region and Vanuatu in the southwest — had matrilocal population structures where wom... read more
Archaeology News Report1 week ago
Ancient DNA and teeth show: Romans brought mules with them
*The Romans were the first to bring mules to Central Europe. Before they took mules northward across the Alps in the first century, horses were the only riding animals used by the peoples there. This was revealed by genetic analyses conducted by a research group from the ArchaeoBioCenter at LMU, the State Collection for Paleoanatomy Munich, and the University of Vienna.* Until the end of the Iron Age in the first century before Christ, the peoples in Celtic settlements in the northern Alpine foothills exclusively bred horses. Highly prized by the Celts as “animals for the elite,... read more
Archaeology News Report1 week ago
Dogs are more genetically similar to ancient wolves in Asia than those in Europe, suggesting a domestication somewhere in the east
n international group of geneticists and archaeologists, led by the Francis Crick Institute, have found that the ancestry of dogs can be traced to at least two populations of ancient wolves. The work moves us a step closer to uncovering the mystery of where dogs underwent domestication, one of the biggest unanswered questions about human prehistory. Dogs are known to have originated from the gray wolf, with this domestication occurring during the Ice Age, at least 15,000 years ago. But where this happened, and if it occurred in one single location or in multiple places, is still ... read more
Archaeology News Report1 week ago
Pests back in the middle Neolithic period – Farmers developed effective strategies to counteract them
[image: remains of mice] IMAGE: LOWER JAW AND FRONT LIMB BONES OF WOOD MICE (APODEMUS CF. SYLVATICUS) AND BLACKTHORN FRUIT WITH GNAWING TRACES BY MICE. view more CREDIT: RAÜL SOTERAS, AGRICHANGE PROJECT As early as the Neolithic period, pests posed a threat to agricultural yields, as shown by the remains of mice and insects found in prehistoric wells by a Basel-led archaeological research team. However, there are also indications that people knew how to defend against these pests – for example, by switching to less vulnerable kinds of grain. Around 8,000 years ago, people began ... read more
Archaeology News Report1 week ago
Underwater jars reveal Roman period winemaking practices
[image: From the amphorae to understanding the content; this multi-analytical analysis relied on archaeobotany and molecular identification.] IMAGE: FROM THE AMPHORAE TO UNDERSTANDING THE CONTENT; THIS MULTI-ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS RELIED ON ARCHAEOBOTANY AND MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION. view more CREDIT: LOUISE CHASSOUANT, CC-BY 4.0 (HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY/4.0/) Winemaking practices in coastal Italy during the Roman period involved using native grapes for making wine in jars waterproofed with imported tar pitch, according to a study published June 29, 2022 in the o... read more
Archaeology News Report2 weeks ago
Famous Sterkfontein Caves deposit 1 million years older than previously thought
New dates for Australopithecus-bearing Sterkfontein Cave deposit places South African hominin fossils at the center of global paleo researchPrint [image: Sterkfontein skulls] IMAGE: FOUR DIFFERENT AUSTRALOPITHECUS CRANIA THAT WERE FOUND IN THE STERKFONTEIN CAVES, SOUTH AFRICA. THE STERKFONTEIN CAVE FILL CONTAINING THIS AND OTHER AUSTRALOPITHECUS FOSSILS WAS DATED TO 3.4 TO 3.6 MILLION YEARS AGO, FAR OLDER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT. THE NEW DATE OVERTURNS THE LONG-HELD CONCEPT THAT SOUTH AFRICAN AUSTRALOPITHECUS IS A YOUNGER OFFSHOOT OF EAST AFRICAN AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS. vi... read more
Archaeology News Report2 weeks ago
Fossils in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ may be more than a million years older than previously thought
— The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For decades, scientists have studied these fossils of early human ancestors and their long-lost relatives. Now, a dating method developed by a Purdue University geologist just pushed the age of some of these fossils found at the site of Sterkfontein Caves back more than a million years. This would make them older than Dinkinesh, also called Lucy, the world’s most famous Australopithecus fossil. The “Cradle... read more
Archaeology News Report2 weeks ago
Population bottlenecks that reduced genetic diversity were common throughout human history
*Analysis shows that more than half of historical groups experienced founder events* [image: Founder events in recent human history] IMAGE: FROM CONTEMPORARY AND ANCIENT DNA, UC BERKELEY RESEARCHERS ESTIMATED WHEN POPULATION BOTTLENECKS OCCURRED FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD AND THROUGHOUT RECENT HUMAN HISTORY. THE COLORS INDICATE THE NUMBER OF GENERATIONS THE BOTTLENECK OR FOUNDER EVENT PRECEDED THE INDIVIDUALS WHOSE DNA WAS SEQUENCED. view more CREDIT: RÉMI TOURNEBIZE, UC BERKELEY Human populations have waxed and waned over the millennia, with some cultures ... read more
Archaeology News Report2 weeks ago
Indigenous communities used the Caribbean Sea as an aquatic highway
[image: Pottery] IMAGE: ANCIENT POTTERY HOLDS CLUES TO THE PAST LIVES, TRADITIONS, AND MOVEMENTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FROM THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS. view more CREDIT: FLORIDA MUSEUM PHOTO BY KRISTEN GRACE With some 7,000 islands and cays and a 7,000-year history of human habitation, the Caribbean Sea is practically synonymous with maritime travel. The very word “canoe” is derived from the term “kana:wa,” used by the Indigenous Arawakans of the Caribbean to describe their dugout vessels. Without clear road signs to indicate where native islanders were traveling, however, the task of... read more
Archaeology News Report3 weeks ago
1,700-year-old Korean genomes show genetic heterogeneity in Three Kingdoms period Gaya
[image: Burial of AKG_3420 from Yu-hari, it corresponds to a child from the Korean TK period. (© John Bahk)] IMAGE: BURIAL OF AKG_3420 FROM YU-HARI, IT CORRESPONDS TO A CHILD FROM THE KOREAN TK PERIOD. (© JOHN BAHK) view more CREDIT: © JOHN BAHK An international team led by The University of Vienna and the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in collaboration with the National Museum of Korea has successfully sequenced and studied the whole genome of eight 1,700-year-old individuals dated to the Three Kingdoms period of Korea (approx. 57 BC-668 AD). The first p... read more
Archaeology News Report3 weeks ago
Olive trees were first domesticated 7,000 years ago
[image: Buildings and rounded siloes at the village of Tel Tsaf] IMAGE: BUILDINGS AND ROUNDED SILOES AT THE VILLAGE OF TEL TSAF view more CREDIT: PROF. YOSEF GARFINKEL A joint study by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University unraveled the earliest evidence for domestication of a fruit tree. The researchers analyzed remnants of charcoal from the Chalcolithic site of Tel Zaf in the Jordan Valley and determined that they came from olive trees. Since the olive did not grow naturally in the Jordan Valley, this means that the inhabitants planted the tree intentio... read more
Archaeology News Report3 weeks ago
Droughts in the sixth century paved the way for Islam
Extreme dry conditions contributed to the decline of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Himyar. Researchers from the University of Basel have reported these findings in the journal *Science*. Combined with political unrest and war, the droughts left behind a region in disarray, thereby creating the conditions on the Arabian peninsula that made possible the spread of the newly emerging religion of Islam. On the plateaus of Yemen, traces of the Himyarite Kingdom can still be found today: terraced fields and dams formed part of a particularly sophisticated irrigation system, trans... read more
Archaeology News Report3 weeks ago
Did democracy have a separate origin in the Americas?
[image: Dem1] IMAGE: VICTOR THOMPSON, DIRECTOR OF THE UGA LABORATORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY, LED THE EXAMINATION OF ARTIFACTS UNEARTHED NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO AT GEORGIA’S COLD SPRINGS SITE, NOW MOSTLY COVERED BY THE WATERS OF LAKE OCONEE. view more CREDIT: NANCY EVELYN/UGA Democracy is widely understood to have arisen in the Mediterranean world about 2,500 years ago before spreading through cultural contact to other parts of the globe. But new research from the University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology, together with its partners in the Muscogee Nation, indicates that inhabitants o... read more
Archaeology News Report3 weeks ago
Origins of the Black Death identified
[image: Tian Shan mountains] IMAGE: VIEW OF THE TIAN SHAN MOUNTAINS. STUDYING ANCIENT PLAGUE GENOMES, RESEARCHERS TRACED THE ORIGINS OF THE BLACK DEATH TO CENTRAL ASIA, CLOSE TO LAKE ISSYK KUL, IN WHAT IS NOW KYRGYZSTAN. view more CREDIT: © LYAZZAT MUSRALINA In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea. The disease then disseminated across Europe, the Middle East and northern Africa claiming up to 60 percent of the population in a large-scale outbreak known as the Black Death. This fi... read more
Archaeology News Report4 weeks ago
Wreck of historic royal ship discovered off the English coast
The wreck of one of the most famous ships of the 17th century - which sank 340 years ago while carrying the future King of England James Stuart - has been discovered off the coast of Norfolk in the UK, it can be revealed today. Since running aground on a sandbank on May 6, 1682, the wreck of the warship the Gloucester has lain half-buried on the seabed, its exact whereabouts unknown until brothers Julian and Lincoln Barnwell, with their friend James Little, found it after a four-year search. Due to the age and prestige of the ship, the condition of the wreck, the finds already r... read more
Archaeology News Report4 weeks ago
What evidence supports a middle-eastern origin for Brassica oleracea crops?
To date, several genetic diversity and population structure studies have been performed and published for domesticated *B. oleracea*, but some have been limited by low numbers of markers. More importantly, very few have included all the described *B. oleracea* morphotypes, and the ones that are included are often represented by a small number of accessions. What is generally lacking in these studies is data on genetic comparisons between modern hybrids and old landrace accessions. Recently, scientists from Wageningen University analyzed the genetic diversity, genealogical relation... read more
Archaeology News Report4 weeks ago
Bioarchaeological evidence of very early Islamic burials in the Levant
P [image: Excavations at Tell Qarassa] IMAGE: EXCAVATION AT THE NEOLITHIC SITE OF TELL QARASSA IN MODERN-DAY SYRIA. A NEW STUDY COMBINING ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL AND BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA PROVIDES NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD IN MODERN-DAY SYRIA. THE RESEARCH TEAM WAS PLANNING TO FOCUS ON A MUCH OLDER TIME PERIOD BUT CAME ACROSS WHAT THEY BELIEVE TO BE REMAINS OF EARLY MUSLIMS IN THE SYRIAN COUNTRYSIDE. view more CREDIT: JONATHAN SANTANA A new study combining archaeological, historical and bioarchaeological data provides new insights into the early Islamic peri... read more
Archaeology News Report4 weeks ago
Prehistoric “Swiss Army knife” indicates early humans communicated
Archaeologists confirm strong social networks allowed early populations to prosper [image: Fig 1 map and objects (c) Dr Paloma de la Pena] IMAGE: FIG 1 MAP AND OBJECTS (C) DR PALOMA DE LA PENA view more CREDIT: DR PALOMA DE LA PENA In a world first, a team of international scientists led by Australian Museum and University of Sydney archaeologist, Dr Amy Mosig Way have revealed that early humans across southern Africa made a particular type of stone tool - the backed artefact- in the same shape. Published in *Scientific Reports* the study clearly shows that the populations must... read more
Archaeology News Report4 weeks ago
Pre-historic Wallacea - a melting pot of human genetic ancestries
[image: Topogaro 2 site, Sulawesi] IMAGE: CAVE ENTRANCE OF THE TOPOGARO 2 SITE, ONE OF THE CAVE SITES OF THE TOPOGARO COMPLEX LOCATED IN CENTRAL SULAWESI. TOPOGARO 2 HAS BEEN EXCAVATED SINCE 2016. HUMAN REMAINS FROM THE PAST 2,000 YEARS WERE FOUND IN THE UPPER LAYERS. view more CREDIT: © RINTARO ONO The Wallacean islands have always been separated from Asia and Oceania by deep-sea waters. Yet, these tropical islands were a corridor for modern humans migrating into the Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea landmass (Sahul) and have been home to modern human groups for at least 47 th... read more
Archaeology News Report4 weeks ago
New evidence about when, where, and how chickens were domesticated
ew research transforms our understanding of the circumstances and timing of the domestication of chickens, their spread across Asia into the west, and reveals the changing way in which they were perceived in societies over the past 3,500 years. Experts have found that an association with rice farming likely started a process that has led to chickens becoming one of the world's most numerous animals. They have also found evidence that chickens were initially regarded as exotica, and only several centuries later used as a source of 'food'. Previous efforts have claimed that chicke... read more
Archaeology News Report5 weeks ago
Rock art cave in Spain was used by ancient humans for over 50,000 years
A cave in southern Spain was used by ancient humans as a canvas for artwork and as a burial place for over 50,000 years, according to a study published June 1, 2022 in the open-access journal *PLOS ONE* by José Ramos-Muñoz of the University of Cadiz, Spain, and colleagues. Cueva de Ardales, a cave in Málaga, Spain, is famous for containing over 1,000 paintings and engravings made by prehistoric people, as well as artifacts and human remains. However, the nature of human usage of this cave has not been well-understood. In this study, the authors present the results of the first ex... read more
Archaeology News Report1 month ago
Industrial manufacturing of wool and wool textiles in the Bronze Age Italy
Montale in northern Italy can have been one of the earliest centres in Europe for production of wool during the Bronze Age. Production may also have been on an industrial scale. Archaeologist Serena Sabatini has drawn this conclusion after having analysed archaeological finds in the form of textile tools and teeth from sheep and goats. "We understood that this was an intense production because of the large amounts of textile tools at the settlement. We then analysed the teeth to better understand how the production of wool was organised." Archaeology is increasingly using methods ... read more
Archaeology News Report1 month ago
Archaeology: First Pompeiian human genome sequenced
The first successfully sequenced human genome from an individual who died in Pompeii, Italy, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE is presented this week in a study published in *Scientific Reports*. : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10899 Prior to this, only short stretches of mitochondrial DNA from Pompeiian human and animal remains had been sequenced. Gabriele Scorrano and colleagues examined the remains of two individuals who were found in the House of the Craftsman in Pompeii and extracted their DNA. The shape, structure, and length of the skeletons ind... read more
Archaeology News Report1 month ago
Archaeologists expand excavations at Leicester Cathedral site
The team behind the discovery of Richard III have resumed major archaeological excavations at Leicester Cathedral, close to where the King was found Business Announcement [image: Richard III] IMAGE: VIEW OF THE RICHARD III STATUE IMMEDIATELY OUTSIDE LEICESTER CATHEDRAL, CLOSE TO BOTH THESE LATEST ULAS WORKS AND THE GREYFRIARS SITE WHERE THE KING'S REMAINS WERE FOUND IN 2012. view more CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER The team behind the discovery of Richard III have resumed major archaeological excavations at Leicester Cathedral, close to where the King was found. Archaeologis... read more
Archaeology News Report1 month ago
First Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds
Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent’s earliest humans consumed the eggs of a two-metre tall bird that disappeared into extinction over 47,000 years ago. Burn marks discovered on scraps of ancient shell several years ago suggested the first Australians cooked and ate large eggs from a long-extinct bird – leading to fierce debate over the species that laid them. Now, an international team led by scientists from the universities of Cambridge and Turin have placed the animal on the evolutionary tree by ... read more
Archaeology News Report1 month ago
Archaeologists reveal pre-Hispanic cities in Bolivia
More than 20 years ago, Dr. Heiko Prümers from the German Archaeological Institute and Prof. Dr. Carla Jaimes Betancourt from the University of Bonn, at that time a student in La Paz, began archaeological excavations on two "mounds" near the village of Casarabe in Bolivia. The Mojos Plains is a southwestern fringe of the Amazon region. Even though the savannah plain, which flooded several months a year during rainy season, does not encourage permanent settlement, there are still many visible traces of the time before Spanish colonization at the beginning of the 16th century. Next ... read more
Archaeology News Report1 month ago
Prehistoric faeces reveal parasites from feasting at Stonehenge
[image: Capillariid egg] IMAGE: MICROSCOPIC EGG OF CAPILLARIID WORM FROM DURRINGTON WALLS. BLACK SCALE BAR REPRESENTS 20 MICROMETRES. view more CREDIT: EVILENA ANASTASIOU/UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of the eggs of parasitic worms, suggesting the inhabitants feasted on the internal organs of cattle and fed leftovers to their dogs. Durrington Walls was a Neolithic settlement situated just 2.8km from Stonehenge, and dating from around 2500 BC, when much of the famous stone... read more
Archaeology News Report1 month ago
Research confirms eastern Wyoming Paleoindian site as Americas' oldest mine
Archaeological excavations led by Wyoming’s state archaeologist and involving University of Wyoming researchers have confirmed that an ancient mine in eastern Wyoming was used by humans to produce red ocher starting nearly 13,000 years ago. That makes the Powars II site at Sunrise in Platte County the oldest documented red ocher mine -- and likely the oldest known mine of any sort -- in all of North and South America. The excavations, completed shortly before the 2020 death of famed UW archaeologist George Frison, confirmed theories he advanced stemming from research he began at ... read more
Archaeology News Report1 month ago
Rice cultivation recorded at a Neolithic site 8000 years ago
PrintEmail App [image: Simulation of the directions of water flow in the rice-field-like archaeological features] IMAGE: THROUGH THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING USING THE AGISOFT PHOTOSCAN SOFTWARE, THE DIRECTIONS OF WATER FLOWS WITHIN AND AROUND THESE FEATURES WERE SIMULATED. GRAPHICS BY ZHENWEI QIU. view more CREDIT: ©SCIENCE CHINA PRESS This study is led by Dr. Zhenwei Qiu (National Museum of China) and Dr. Yijie Zhuang (Institute of Archaeology, University College London). The Hanjing site is situated on the flood plains of the Mid-lower Huai River. Three seasons of field sur... read more
Archaeology News Report1 month ago
Bronze Age funeral pyre in Northern Italy may have been used over generations
with cremated remains left in situ as part of complex funerary rituals [image: The cremation platform during the excavation of 1987 (courtesy of Ufficio Beni Archeologici di Bolzano).] IMAGE: THE CREMATION PLATFORM DURING THE EXCAVATION OF 1987 (COURTESY OF UFFICIO BENI ARCHEOLOGICI DI BOLZANO). view more CREDIT: CRIVELLARO ET AL., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0267532 The archaeological site of Salorno—Dos de la Forca (Bozen, Alto Adige) provides one of t... read more
Archaeology News Report1 month ago
Humans and Neanderthals “Lived Together” 50,000 Years Ago
COMPLETE ARTICLE Recent research from an Israeli archaeological dig has proven that modern humans and Neanderthals lived together in the Negev desert some 50,000 years ago. Not only that, but the site they excavated, Boker Tachtit, has now been established as the earliest known migration point from Africa for early Homo sapiens from the Levant. In the Middle Palaeolithic era, 250,000 to 50,000 years ago, two humanoid species lived in the Old World at the same time: Neanderthal man and modern man (Homo sapiens). The Neanderthals lived in Europe and Central Asia whereas modern man... read more
Archaeology News Report1 month ago
Where were Herod the Great's royal alabaster bathtubs quarried?
[image: Where were Herod the Great's royal alabaster bathtubs quarried?] From the Middle Bronze Age, Egypt played a crucial role in the appearance of calcite-alabaster artifacts in Israel, and the development of the local gypsum-alabaster industry. The absence of ancient calcite-alabaster quarries in the Southern Levant (modern day Israel and Palestine) led to the assumption that all calcite-alabaster vessels found in the Levant originated from Egypt, while poorer quality vessels made of gypsum were local products. Until now this long-held assumption was never scientifically test... read more
Archaeology News Report2 months ago
Ancient DNA gives new insights into 'lost' Indigenous people of Uruguay
The first whole genome sequences of the ancient people of Uruguay provide a genetic snapshot of Indigenous populations of the region before they were decimated by a series of European military campaigns. *PNAS Nexus* published the research, led by anthropologists at Emory University and the University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay. "Our work shows that the Indigenous people of ancient Uruguay exhibit an ancestry that has not been previously detected in South America," says John Lindo, co-corresponding author and an Emory assistant professor of anthropology specializing in ... read more
Archaeology News Report2 months ago
Livestock and dairying led to dramatic social changes in ancient Mongolia
The movement of herders and livestock into the eastern steppe is of great interest to researchers, but few scholars have linked the introduction of herds and horses to the rise of complex societies. Now, a new study in the journal *PLOS ONE *provides interdisciplinary support for connections between livestock dairying and the rise of social complexity in the eastern steppe. Using proteomic analysis of human dental calculus from sites in the Mongolian Altai, the researchers demonstrate a shift in dairy consumption over the course of the Bronze Age. By tracking the consumption of d... read more
Archaeology News Report2 months ago
Complex human childbirth and cognitive abilities a result of walking upright
[image: Birth simulation of Lucy] IMAGE: BIRTH SIMULATION OF LUCY (AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS) WITH THREE DIFFERENT FETAL HEAD SIZES. ONLY A BRAIN SIZE OF MAXIMUM 30 PERCENT OF THE ADULT SIZE (RIGHT) FITS THROUGH THE BIRTH CANAL. view more CREDIT: (PICTURE: MARTIN HÄUSLER, UZH) During human birth, the fetus typically navigates a tight, convoluted birth canal by flexing and rotating its head at various stages. This complex process comes with a high risk of birth complications, from prolonged labor to stillbirth or maternal death. These complications were long believed to be th... read more
Archaeology News Report2 months ago
Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World,

This spring, the Getty Villa Museum presents the exhibition *Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World*, the first major U.S. exhibition to highlight the relationship between the Classical World and Ancient Iran. In addition to the spectacular ancient works on view that explore the artistic and cultural connections between the rival powers of Iran, Greece, and Rome, the exhibition is supported by two innovative digital experiences: a 360-degree immersive film onsite at the Villa and a highly interactive online website at getty.edu/persepolis. [image: Gold lion plaque with wings, b... read more

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