This summer, the excavation project in northwest Bükk, Hungary, continued, led by a university team specializing in the Bronze and Iron Ages. The research, involving students and local volunteers, focuses on an ancient village located on the mountaintop of Verebce-bérc. This village flourished in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. before being destroyed by an […]
Treasures
Posted inIron Age Archaeology
Vindelev Treasure revealed to have Belonged to a Mysterious Member of the European Elite in the Norse Iron Age
A farm located in the small town of Vindelev in Jutland, Denmark likely housed a very prominent and internationally connected individual, according to a new investigation by the National Museum of Denmark into the Vindelev Treasure, recently published in the research journal International Numismatic Chronicle. The lead researcher, Helle Horsnæs, examined the four Roman gold […]
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Quintus Servilius Caepio, the proconsul who stole the “Aurum Tolosanum”, the fabulous treasure the Gauls took from Delphi
Gaius Marius earned the nickname Third Founder of Rome by preventing the de facto invasion represented by the migration of a coalition of Germanic peoples to the Italian peninsula. That episode left a series of subsidiary stories, two of which were protagonized by the same character: Quintus Servilius Caepio. In the first – the juiciest, […]
