Digs & Discoveries November/December 2012
Lion in Wait
Looking a bit angry—perhaps because he's being unceremoniously hoisted aboveground by a crane—this 3,000-year-old stone lion has much to tell archaeologists about the Iron Age in the eastern Mediterranean (1200-550 b.c.)
Artifacts September 1, 2011
Tombstone for the Gladiator Diodorus
Features January 1, 2011
The Tomb of Hecatomnus - Milas, Turkey
Turkish authorities have arrested looters who are suspected of tunneling their way into one of antiquity's most intriguing tombs. The looters reached the underground chamber, which lies below a temple to Zeus near the town of Milas, by digging in from a nearby house and an adjacent barn.
Features January 1, 2011
Allianoi - Turkey
A reservoir created by a new hydroelectric dam in western Turkey will soon permanently flood the ruins of the Roman-era bath complex of Allianoi.
