Saturday, April 19, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/arts/18arts-001.html?_r=6&ref=arts&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=login&oref=login
The Italian Culture Ministry announced on Thursday the discovery of a late-second-century Roman sarcophagus on the outskirts of Rome. The find, by the national Revenue Guard Corps, took place while the corps’s Archaeological Heritage Safeguard Unit was safeguarding a protected area from thieves. The sarcophagus, probably once the property of an aristocratic family, was excavated in the area of the Isola Sacra Necropolis, a large Roman Imperial-era pagan cemetery in the town of Fiumicino, site of Rome’s main airport and a few miles from the famous ancient ruins of Ostia.


Not much else there, but there will probably be more on it later.