Archaeology, page 5

News related to archaeology in Slovakia (research, discoveries, findings)

Works at an archaeological site in archaeological site Tell el-Retaba.

Slovak Egyptologists make an unexpected discovery

Old fortress walls discovered during excavation.

Named after Žilina priest and mayor Tomáš Ružička, the house was designed by architect Michal Maximilián Scheer in 1931. People from socially disadvantaged backgrounds lived here until 1990, when nuns moved in.

Archaeologists came to survey the chapel remains. They dug up a horse skeleton

Tombs and prehistoric items have also been found during an archaeological survey next to Ružička's House in Žilina.

On October 1, 2021, the Košice State Theatre presented the premiere of Gaetano Doinizetti's opera 'Robeto Devereux.'
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Your weekend reads, including bike trips and Bratislava news, rounded up in one place.

The Pustý Hrad castle ruins are located above the town of Zvolen, central Slovakia.

Counterfeit coins were the least surprising find unearthed at the Zvolen castle ruins

Archaeologists gathered at Pustý Hrad the past summer for the 13th time.

Pustý Hrad was once one of the most important settlements of Hungarian kings and in the Zvolen County.

Visitors to Pustý Hrad will dig up money. No, they will not become rich

A new archaeological sandpit has opened at Pustý Hrad, near Zvolen, and people can dig out something they can keep as a souvenir.

Celtic coins found in Jánovce in the past.

2,000-year-old grains discovered near Poprad

A bronze Celtic statue with golden eyes was unearthed in the same Poprad locality last year.

Norway returns illegally exported Roman coins to Slovakia

The illegal trade in cultural heritage items is a large-scale global problem, the Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister claims.

Prehistoric animals such as mammoths come to life in films thanks to digital technologies, but few artists have portrayed them as artistically as Zdeněk Burian.

Mammoths were the first to discover Piešťany's thermal springs

Mammoth bones have recently been found near the spa town.

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Unknown liturgical objects found near Hubina village

Finders continued to search with a metal detector but did not manage to find more objects.

Roman lapidary in Komárno offers tour of ancient Roman monuments

If offers to visitors’ tours of ancient Roman stone-sculptural monuments that originated in Slovak area.

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Archaeologists discover Bronze Celtic statue with golden eyes

The locality has never been systematically researched.

Traces of Celtic settlements discovered in Trnava

The planned park will open next year.

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Castle tower in Zvolen open for visitors

Reconstruction should continue next year.

In the picture: Teotihuacan administrator called K´ihnich Mo´(f1) and the king (f2) known as the Carrier of the Sun.

Slovaks have unravelled the secret of a lost Mayan painting

The ancient mural was destroyed nearly a century ago.

More than 2000-year-old fragments of ceramics and bones uncovered in Trenčín

The most precious findings are metal objects and two reliefs in the shape of human heads.

Artefacts from 16th and 17th centuries found at Krásna Hôrka

Among them was a piece of metal ready to forge coins.

7000-year-old objects discovered during small construction works

Archaeologists succeeded in identifying material, a blade, a scraper, and even a wharve.

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Man searching for treasures at archaeological site could end up in jail

Searching for archaeological findings with a metal detector is illegal.

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