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- Tuesday, 8 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Excavations at ancient Smyrna, beneath modern-day İzmir, have uncovered a late-Roman-era mosaic floor featuring the Solomon's knot motif at its centre, along with three late-antique rooms with previously undocumented wall paintings. The finds add to the city's late-Roman and early-Byzantine history (Wikipedia, 2026 in archaeology; Turkish Archaeological News).
- Tuesday, 8 September 2026 · Analysis
From the Koskarlı cave to the Norfolk carnyx: two finds that shift chronologies
A study in Antiquity dates the first epipalaeolithic settlement of the eastern Black Sea to between 12,916 and 12,070 BC. In England, an almost complete Iron Age war trumpet emerges.
- Tuesday, 8 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The September–October 2026 issue of the Archaeological Institute of America reconstructs the story of the deposits at Ken Hill, in Norfolk, discovered by farmers in the late 1940s; other hoards emerged over the following six decades, many during British Museum excavations in the early 1990s, and one excavated in 1990 contained two overlapping deposits. The issue also includes features on Maya murals in Guatemala and the tomb of a singer in the Valley of the Kings (Archaeology Magazine).
- Monday, 7 September 2026 · Analysis
Twenty-five new sites added to World Heritage list, three inscribed already in danger
The 48th session of the UNESCO Committee, meeting in Busan, brings the list to 1,273 properties in 173 countries. South Sudan, Comoros and São Tomé and Príncipe join for the first time; Vienna is removed from the list of sites in danger.
- Monday, 7 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The 2026 Booker Prize, worth £50,000 and reserved for the best novel in English published between October 1, 2025 and September 30, 2026 in the United Kingdom or Ireland, released a longlist of 13 works on July 28, selected from 163 titles, including two former winners and three debut authors. The shortlist will be announced on September 22 at the Southbank Centre in London, the winner on November 9 at Old Billingsgate. The jury is chaired by Mary Beard: "Great books have never been written to a single formula" (transl. from English). (The Booker Prizes, prize profile, Wikipedia)
- Monday, 7 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The 43rd edition of the Journées du Patrimoine is set for September 19 and 20, with archaeological sites and excavation digs among the places open to visitors: on those two days the Provins dig, in Seine-et-Marne, will be accessible, and the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, home to the Musée d'Archéologie nationale, will take part. Inrap exceptionally opened the Tonnerre dig to the public on September 3, on the Montbellant hill, where a plot of about 750 m² was excavated less than fifty meters from a 2024 dig; since summer, five train stations have hosted the "Gares aux Gaulois!" trail, produced with SNCF Gares & Connexions. (Sortiraparis, Inrap, Ministère de la Culture)
- Sunday, 6 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
At the Unesco site in the Laotian province of Xieng Khouang, excavations have yielded copper-alloy bells, ceramic funerary vessels, teeth and bone fragments associated with the Iron Age stone jars, elements pointing to secondary burial practices: the dead would have been buried elsewhere and later transferred, Artribune reports. The site, added to the Unesco list in 2019, holds thousands of containers up to three meters tall, and the culture of origin has not yet been established with certainty, according to Arte Passante. This newspaper had written about it on August 30.
- Sunday, 6 September 2026 · Analysis
A 3,800-year-old letter read without opening the clay envelope
A study published in npj Heritage Science describes the reading of cuneiform tablets still sealed inside their envelope: among the texts, a letter from the ancient city of Kanesh written by a woman to her husband.
- Sunday, 6 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The thirtieth edition is being held in Mantua from Wednesday, September 9 to Sunday, September 13, with over 300 authors taking part in talks, readings, performances, workshops and concerts throughout the historic center. Among the names announced are Niccolò Ammaniti, Emmanuel Carrère, Alessandro Barbero, Daniel Pennac, Amitav Ghosh, Irvine Welsh, Lea Ypi and Tim Berners-Lee, according to the organizers. More than 80 events are free of charge, and online ticket sales opened to the public at 9 a.m. on September 4, ilLibraio.it reports.
- Sunday, 6 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The work titled "Blue," on display at Washington's Kennedy Center for seven years, has been taken down and removed: the news dates to September 5 and was reported by the US public broadcaster NPR. The story currently comes from a single source; no independent confirmation is available, and neither the reasons for the removal nor the work's destination are known.
- Saturday, 5 September 2026 · Analysis
The Ig Nobel Prizes leave the United States and head to Zurich
The 36th ceremony was held on September 3 at the Kongresshaus, the first edition outside the United States in 35 years. Ten prizes, 1,500 spectators and a stated reason: safety concerns for those traveling to the United States.
- Saturday, 5 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The report on excavation campaigns from the first half of 2026 records the mosaics of an ancient early Christian church in the southeastern sector of Oderzo, a lamp fragment with a chrismon and 7th-century BC ceramics of Corinthian tradition in Vereto, the continuation of the Gabii Project along the Via Prenestina with Tor Vergata, Michigan and Missouri, and a wreck unexpectedly identified off the Ionian coast of Calabria. Single-source item: Artribune.
- Saturday, 5 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
At El-Bahnasa, ancient Oxyrhynchus, about 245 kilometers south of Cairo, a mission from the University of Barcelona and the Institute for the Ancient Near East found a papyrus of the Iliad among the bandages of a Roman-era mummy; according to the excavators it is the first attestation of the Homeric poems in an Egyptian funerary context. Some mummies from the complex, in use between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, have gold or copper tongues. Single source: Artribune.
- Friday, 4 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The Turin International Book Fair and the Fondazione CRT have opened a call, running until September 23, for Italian organizations engaged in promoting reading: selected organizations will receive donated books from the three publishing houses that won the second edition of the prize, Quinto Quarto, Settenove and Settecolori, honored in May in Turin. The award was established in 2025 to recognize excellence in publishing. The news comes from a single source (ANSA, based on the promoters' statement); no independent confirmation available.
- Friday, 4 September 2026 · Analysis
Booker Prize heads towards shortlist: announcement on September 22
Thirteen titles chosen from 163 novels, a jury chaired by classicist Mary Beard, £50,000 to the winner who will be announced on November 9 in London. Meanwhile, on Sunday Rome opens civic museums and archaeological sites free of charge.
- Friday, 4 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Between September 4 and 6, the state museums of Arezzo and Anghiari are offering talks, guided tours and accessible itineraries. On the 4th at 5.30 pm, in the Ceramics Room of the National Archaeological Museum named after Gaio Cilnio Mecenate, the event "Minerva e Bacco" takes place, curated with the Accademia Petrarca. On Sunday the 6th, with free admission, the exhibition ends that brought back to the city where it was discovered one of antiquity's best-known bronzes. Also on the 6th, the Museo di Casa Vasari inaugurates a theatrical sound itinerary through the painter's residence, while in Anghiari the Museo di Palazzo Taglieschi celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. The news currently comes from a single source (a press release from the Regional Directorate of National Museums of Tuscany); no independent confirmation available.
- Thursday, 3 September 2026 · Analysis
Venice 83 opens with a restoration: "Deadly Sweet" returns to theatres in 4K
A different story from this morning's opening on the Bayeux Tapestry: the pre-opening of the Venice Film Festival gives the first slot in the calendar not to a new film but to the recovery of a 1967 movie, with money from a private operator flowing into the work of a public film archive.
- Thursday, 3 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
At the Baths of Diocletian, "Roma in moneta: arte e potere nella storia della città eterna" is open from July 2 to September 27, a multi-venue exhibition involving the National Roman Museum, VIVE – Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia, and the Colosseum Archaeological Park, presenting coinage as a political, economic and ideological tool. The report currently stems from a single source, the exhibition program compiled by Informagiovani Roma.
- Thursday, 3 September 2026 · Analysis
The Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum for ten months, from September 10
The London exhibition opens on September 10, 2026 and closes on July 11, 2027. In Venice the Fondazione Querini Stampalia awards the Marco Polo Prize to a novel and its French translator; in Rome the MAXXI exhibits Andrea Pazienza until September 27.
- Thursday, 3 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
In addition to the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum, the British museum season includes "Tides of Treasure" at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea until June 26, 2027, "Treasure! Lost and found" at the Dorset Museum in Dorchester until September 13, 2026, and "Marking Time" at Stanley Mills, Scotland, until September 27, 2026. Single source. (The Past)
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