Latest News

• October 2025:  an article by Eric Stann appeared on Show me Mizzou regarding the recent discovery of a water basin at Gabii. Here the press release from the Italian Ministero della Cultura – Direzione generale dei Musei.
• 2024: The Gabii Project receives AIA Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology for the project “A cemetery and quarry from Imperial Gabii” edited by Laura Banducci and Anna Gallone.
• March 2020: The YouTube channel University of Michigan Library posted a video interview of Nic Terrenato and other Staff members as part of the project “The Book Unbound” regarding the Gabii Project and in particular The Gabii Project Reports, the first of a kind series of digitally-enhanced monographs published by the University of Michigan Press.
• June 2018: An article by Kristina Killgrove appeared on Forbes discussed the results of the study of skeletons from Gabii.
• August 2017: EWTN Global Catholic Television  interviewed Nic Terrenato about the project and the site. Also, an article by Hannah Brockhaus appeared on CNA Catholic News Agency.
• March 2017: An article by Morgan Sherburne was posted on Phys.org regarding the publication of the first volume about the Gabii Project, “A Mid-Republic House from Gabii”.
• Kelsey Museum Newsletter (fall 2015)

 

• December 2013: an interview with Nic Terrenato appeared on the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. The article discusses the state of Italian archaeology, and the important contribution of US-based institutions, including The Gabii Project.
• December 2013: Gabii’s Area F building has been selected as one of the top 10 discoveries of 2013 by the Archaeology magazine!
• August 2013: Gabii Goes Digital, a new effort to make 3D models a core part of the Gabii Project’s publication record and to promote their acceptance as basic data within the archaeological community, has been funded by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities. Read more.
• Coverage of the Area F Building. A large chunk of a monumental building with imposing ashlar architecture and nicely appointed floors was uncovered in 2012-2013. In July 2013 the sensational find was first announced in a short article by Prof. Mario Torelli, featured in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Additional coverage from news outlets in the UK and the US soon followed. Most notable are a piece that appeared in the New York Times, and a release by the University of Michigan’s news service. Both include a summary of the finds, and quotes from Nic Terrenato and other team members. A story on the dig was included in the september/october 2013 issue of the UK-based magazine Minerva. More web coverage: redorbit.com; italymagazine.com.

• July 2011: Gabii Project receives collaborative research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read more.
• The February 2009 issue of Etruscan News featured a small article on the Gabii Project’s geophysical survey.
• November 2011: On the YouTube channel Ancient Rome Live was posted an interview by Darius Arya (The American Institute for Roman Culture CEO) to Nic Terrenato regarding the project and the site. Click here.
•  Kelsey Museum Newsletter (fall 2008; fall 2010).
• University of Michigan. LSA Magazine (fall 2008).
• University of Michigan. Classics Convivium (Department of Classical Studies newsletter). Winter 2009.
• University of Michigan. LSA wire e-zine (February 2010).
• May 2010: creation of the Fiat / Chrysler Scholars program at Gabii, thanks to gifts from the Chrysler Foundation and Fiat SPA.

Project director Nicola Terrenato delivers the ceremonial first blow of the pick-axe to begin the Gabii Project’s excavations in May 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

Corey Brennan (right) interviews Nic Terrenato at Gabii; July 2009.

• Coverage of the lead sarcophagus. In late March 2010, the sarcophagus – excavated at Gabii in summer 2009 – was the subject of a news release from the UM News Service and a short story online by National Geographic News.  Additional coverage by other print and online press outlets soon followed. In Italy, the Italian newspaper La Stampa and the magazine OggiScienza interviewed field director Anna Gallone.  Follow this link for a digested summary of the media coverage of the lead sarcophagus, and stay tuned for further updates!
  • Autumn 2010:  A German radio interview with Anna Gallone about the process of scanning the lead sarcophagus with neutrons in Munich.  (“Bleisarg unter der Neutronenlupe: Im Forschungsreaktor untersuchten Archäologen eine antike Rarität“).
  • November 2010: German television coverage of the neutron scanning at FRM II in Munich.  Click here for an English transcript of the news story.

 

Jeffrey Becker and Nicola Terrenato during the opening of the Imperial tomb that would prove to contain the lead sarcophagus. 

 

 Field Director Anna Gallone during the excavation of the sarcophagus 

                              The lead sarcophagus in situ.