The Telegraph reports that in a taped bedroom conversation between Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and a prostitute, Berlusconi revealed that he had found 30 Phoenician tombs on his estate on Sardinia. “If the presence of these 30 previously unknown tombs on Berlusconi’s estate is confirmed it represents a very significant discovery,” said Giuseppina Manca […]

Five Roman shipwrecks were discovered off the west coast of Italy, in deep water near the island of Ventotene. The ships span a period of 1,000 years, and may have sunk while heading for the island in stormy seas. After squatters were evicted from a shanty town in Lima, Peru, archaeologists moved in to excavate […]