Position:Province of Syracuse

Since their discovery, the tomb doors of Castelluccio have been the object of careful study to decipher their iconographic and symbolic meaning. They served as a closure to three of the 200 tombs, nos. 31, 34 and 22 of the necropolis found on the rocky sides of the Cava della Signora, in the village of…

Globule bones are still a small mystery of archaeology. Up to now 24 specimens have been found in Sicily, datable to the Early Bronze Age of Castellucciana facies (XXIII-XV century BC) which are added to a specimen from Tarxien (Malta), two from Puglia, one from Lerna (Peloponnese) and three from Troy….