"Corsica" Blogs & Blog Posts

 Before the construction of the Pagliaghju and Domaine Zanardi real estate projects by the Demeures Corses company in the commune of Ile Rousse (Corsica), an archaeological excavation was carried out by Inrap following a request from the State (...

In recent months, Inrap has conducted extensive excavations in Corsica, one of which led to the major discovery of a Roman and Etruscan necropolis at Aleria. This preventive archaeological excavation uncovered an exceptional Etruscan tomb from the en...

I will admit that this headline is clickbait because I wrote it before reading the article about the Corsican cat-fox, so I naturally believed it to be bred of the Devil’s work, namely cat-on-fox or fox-on-cat fucking. It’s not. But do keep readi...

A team of Inrap archaeologists is currently excavating an Etruscan tomb in Aleria-Lamajone (Corsica). This excavation, curated by the State (DRAC Corsica), first uncovered two road sections and an Etruscan and Romain necropolis. The discovery of a hy...

Archaeologists with CEAN (Centre d'études en archéologie nautique) have identified the remains of two wrecks discovered in the Gulf of Saint-Florent on the island of Corsica during an archaeological survey programme initiated in 2005. The photomos...

Over the last twenty years or so, the increasing number of archaeological excavations in Corsica has led to the discovery of a considerable number of burials around the religious buildings of the Middle Ages (5th - 15th centuries). Two different typ...

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