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Archaeologists Discover Late Roman Mausoleum at Perperikon

Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov (excavation director, National Institute of Archaeology, Bulgaria) · Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA) · 2026-07-30

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II.

Ancient 5th-century mosaics rediscovered at one of Croatia's most important early Christian sites

Archaeological Museum of Istria and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg team · Croatia Week (Hina wire, 28 July 2026) · 2026-07-28

Follow-up fieldwork at the Early Christian church and monastery complex of St Andrew at Betiga (Istria, Croatia), conducted jointly by the Archaeological Museum of Istria and the Department of Christian Archaeology at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, has re-exposed and digitally docum…

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Fifth-century AD blacksmith workshop excavated at Seleukeia Sidera, Isparta, Turkey

Excavation team, Suleyman Demirel University / Isparta Museum; excavation director unnamed in press release · Daily Sabah / Anadolu Agency · 2026-07-24

Excavators at the ancient city of Seleukeia Sidera (Pisidia) uncovered a complete blacksmith workshop dated to the 5th century AD — furnace, anvil, quenching pool, charcoal storage and finished ironwork — preserved within what appears to have been an industrial quarter of th…

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Room 10 at Fuente Álamo villa (Puente Genil, Córdoba) reidentified as library, not mithraeum

Antonio López García, Javier Martínez-Jiménez, Eduardo Cerrato Casado (University of Granada) · Euronews / Labrujulaverde / press reports on Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology study · 2026-07-29

López García, Martínez-Jiménez, and Cerrato Casado used architectural shape-grammar to demonstrate that Room 10 at Fuente Álamo, long labelled a mithraeum, matches the formal canon of a Roman private library — apse, rectangular and semicircular niches for scroll-cases, raise…

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