The Scandinavian-Sicilian Expedition

International excavations at a 700 to 400 BCE hillfort.
http://www.hf.uio.no/iakk/sicilia/

Sicilian-Scandinavian Archaeological Project

An international collaborative project investigates Monte Polizzo, an early Iron Age settlement in the NW of Sicily. Participants, landscape survey, fieldwork, finds and archaeobotony.
http://dig.anthro.niu.edu/sicily/sic_home.htm

The Troina Project

The University of Cambridge is investigating the archaeological history of the Troina region in Sicily. The team, regional survey and analysis, excavations at Casa Sollima - a prehistoric house.
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/TROINA/

Rock Art and Petroglyphs in Valcamonica

Footsteps of Man Archaeological Society is investigating prehistoric petrogyphs in the Alps. Clickable map leads to images. Descriptions of sites and periods.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/2384/

Rockart at the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici (CCSP)

Includes: 1500+ pages of rock art information,images, descriptions, discussion, and links.
http://www.rockart-ccsp.com/

Roman gold mine of Bessa

Alberto Vaudagna's description of the archaeology, history and geology of this area in Piedmont, with images and bibliography. Includes a 2nd century BCE gold mine and Protohistoric rock art.
http://spazioinwind.libero.it/bessapark/english.htm

Horace's Farmhouse Found Beneath Horace's villa Site

Attempt to answer whether the Roman poet and the satirist Horace live in a modest farmhouse, as he tells us in his writings, or in a 20,000-square-foot villa, which most archaeologists have attributed to him.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/backdirt/spr02/steinmetz.html

Death of the Iceman

Provides documentary about Oetzi, the Iceman. Includes transcripts of BBC documentery.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/iceman.shtml

Man from the Hauslabjoch

Research overview about the iceman provided by the anatomical institute of Innsbruck.
http://www.uibk.ac.at/c/c5/c552/Forschung/Iceman/iceman-en.html

Iceman's Final Meal

From the BBC, the last two meals eaten by the 5,300-year-old iceman, dubbed Oetzi, have been revealed by scientists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2262615.stm

'Italian Stonehenge' Found on Mountain

From the Telegraph, a series of prehistoric stone structures, reminiscent of Stonehenge but taller and possibly earlier, have been located 3,500ft above sea level on a mountain in Calabria, southern Italy.
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/10/22/wstone22.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/10/22/ixworld.html

DNA reveals how the Italian Iceman went down fighting

From the Independent, Iceman bore traces of the blood of four other men on his weapons and clothes, three of whom he had killed or wounded.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=433095

Ancient Carved 'Faces' Found

From BBC, Italian scientist says he has found a carved stone head that is 200,000 years old.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3197402.stm

DNA Results Could ID Columbus

From Discovery Channel, two sets of DNA detectives prepare to put Christopher Columbus' finally to rest.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040119/columbus.html

Tyrol Museum of Archaelogy

Pictures and background material about Oetzi, the iceman, from the museum where he is exhibited.
http://www.archaeologiemuseum.it/f01_uk.html

Capo Alfiere

Capo Alfiere is the name of a Neolithic site located on a small headland on the eastern coast of Calabria.
http://www.utexas.edu/research/ica/morter/CAweb.html

Carbonia

The Phoenician and Punic town stands on a hill whose history dates back to the Neolithic (as the presence of the Domus de Janas witnesses) and after to the Nuragic Age.
http://sardinia.net/carbonia/eng/sirai.htm

First Ancient Neolithic Finds from Garfagnana

The Upper and Middle valley of Serchio river, between Apuane Alps and Northern Appennines has been known for a long time because of the great number of Final Epigravettian and Mesolithic sites, but only recently the archaeological researches performed by
http://web.unife.it/progetti/notes/eprime.htm

I Fani

Maps and images from this Bronze Age through Archaic Period site.
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/archaeology/Projects/Robinson/Fani/index.htm

The Mesolithic Burial of Mezzocorona

The archaeological site of Borgonuovo was discovered in 1991 by Leone Merchiori and Remo Carli during digging works for the construction of a terrace wall, which truncated the anthropic deposit.
http://web.unife.it/progetti/notes/emezzoc.htm

Tuscan Mystery to be Unearthed

From the Discovery Channel, archaeological digging might soon unveil the mystery surrounding a sword buried in a Gothic abbey in Tuscany.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040301/sword.html

Rome Church Opens After Centuries Under Rubble

From MSNBC, after 12 centuries under rubble and 24 years of restoration Rome opened the doors to Santa Maria Antiqua, the oldest church in the Roman Forum's ancient ruins and its rare collection of early medieval art.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4695071/

Italian Skeletons Reveal Disease

From Discovery Channel, before Columbus discovered the New World, arthritis and syphilis were absent from Italy.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040412/syphilis.html

Pompeii Find Shows Secrets of the Samnites

From the Daily Telegraph, discovery in Pompeii of a pre-Roman temple is being hailed as evidence that the city was sophisticated and thriving 300 years before Vesuvius erupted.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/05/wpom05.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/05/ixworld.html

Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria

1848 volume by George Dennis. The complete work online. 1165 pages, engravings, maps, and plans.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/_Periods/Roman/Archaic/Etruscan/_Texts/DENETR*/

Pompei discovery for Swedish archeologists

From The Local, Swedish archeologists have discovered a Stone Age settlement covered in ash under the ruins of the ancient city of Pompei, indicating that the volcano Vesuvius engulfed the area in lava more than 3,500 years before the famous 79 AD eruptio
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1291&date=20050417