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You are looking at a field of fluffy, golden grass dotted with yellow flowers. There are trees in the background and mountains beyond that. Where are you? Now you’re facing a terracotta sarcophagus. Where are you? When are you? A new exhibit in the Rubenstein Arts Center uses AI to bring viewers into ancient Roman and Etruscan landscapes spanning 1...

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Natural World Safaris has conducted a study to determine the hottest destinations for Americans in the summer of 2024. To do this, experts at Natural World Safaris analyzed Google search volumes using the tool Ahrefs to find out which destinations are on the top of everyone’s list this year. They not only looked at the destinations that have increa...

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For the year 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, DGDP, supports and encourages the carrying out of missions abroad and in Italy by, respectively, Italian and foreign researchers, teachers, experts, personalities and cultural operators invited by university and cultural institutions. The main objective of the financi...

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The Embassy of Italy in Washington hosted the annual meeting of the Council for the United States and Italy (Consiglio per le Relazioni tra Italia e Stati Uniti — ConsIUSA) on April 9th-10th. Italian Ambassador to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, welcomed participants on the evening of April 9th at Villa Firenze. The Italian Minister of Univer...

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The Italian wine industry (that will be meeting at Vinitaly, from April 13th to 17th, in Verona, which is the largest trade fair in the sector celebrating one of Italy’s symbolic products, ed.), is going through a moment of “transition” and has many challenges ahead to face. At the same time, though, it can count on solid foundations as it has an i...

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An important archaeological discovery in Sicily, where in Tripi (Messina), a village of just over 700 inhabitants nestled between the Nebrodi and Peloritani mountains: in fact, theagora of ancient Abakainon, an ancient city mentioned by Diodorus Siculus that was located in the area where Trippi now stands, has been found. These are remains of an im...

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Venice celebrated Italian and international scientific excellence by awarding Italian American scientist Antonio Giordano with the prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Giordano, president and founder of the Sbarro Health Research Organization at Temple University in the United States and full professor of Anatomy and Pathological Histo...

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An archaeological site in Central Italy dating back more than 2,500 years is a special place for two Illinois State University researchers. For the past three years, Associate Professor of History Kathryn Jasper and Professor of Art History Lea Cline have been leading the Northwest Bolsena Archaeological Project at Valle Gianni.  The excavation is...

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An innovative and ingenious idea was brought to life by an insight from Sergio Gamberini, founder of the leading underwater equipment company, Ocean Reef Group. The Italian engineer, along with his company’s team, has created a new scenario for future sustainable agriculture. The world’s first underwater garden was born in Liguria, on the seabed of...

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Whether you want to honour your family’s heritage or you and your boo simply went on an amaaazing trip to Tuscany and you want to cherish those memories by giving your kiddo a moniker inspired by your vacay, there are plenty of Italian baby names to choose from. (Side note: If you’re picking a name based on where your lil one was conceived, I salut...

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