The villa itself was built in the 1950s, and the outside walls are coated with recovered archaeological artifacts like amphora lids, marble inscriptions and terra cotta tiles.
Tons of marble looted from archaeological sites were used in building a new palace on the shore of an artificial lake, created by diverting the Tigris near Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit.
On the other hand, recently we showed how thermal analysis, in particular thermogravimetry (TG-DTG), coupled with chemometric methods, can be a valid tool for the characterization and classification of several types of archaeological finds and cultural heritage, e.g. pigments [15], marbles [16], pottery [17], fossil bones [18], and so on.
At the same time, the importance of the event, with its numerous pieces travelling outside the country for the first time, can be seen as reinforcing the message that, should the British Museum return the Parthenon marbles to their rightful home, it could receive such archaeological exhibitions in return.
Lastly four unknown marble samples ((b), c),(d),(e)), subjected to typing, were taken from archaeological finds conserved in the Rome National Museum, all dating back to the Imperial period (2nd – 3rd A.D).
MILAN — A modest archaeological museum in Aidone, Sicily, is heralding the return of two sixth-century B.C. marble sculptures that have haunting smiles and a somewhat mysterious past.
The police said that a raid on the home of the unidentified man found not only a sophisticated restoration laboratory, metal detectors and other archaeological tools, but also thousands of Etruscan and Roman terra-cotta vases, polychrome mosaic tiles, pieces of travertine and multicolored marble that once adorned Roman villas.
However, the past is acknowledged in the atrium staircase that leads down to the auditorium, which will take visitors past the bottom of the dressed marble facade and through the exposed rubble-stone foundations under the library itself, cut away in a kind of archaeological layering.
Experiments carried out by a combined team of the Ca' Foscari and IUAV Universities of Venice, on ancient shipwrecks with different characteristics in different environments (shallow water cargoes of marble stones and a deep water mound of amphoras), confirm the potential of three-dimensional surveys in documenting underwater archaeological sites.
