Campanica | Monitoring Italy's Campania region around Naples

IN A RAID BY ART COPS A MEDIEVAL CHURCH PLUNDERED BY TOMB ROBBERS WAS DISCOVERED Investigations by the specialist Naples' Cultural Heritage Protection Unit have led to a rare archaeological discovery. The iconography of Christ Enthroned is partially identifiable, with velarium decorations underneath and a dedicatory inscription. Its decoration bears similarities to the nearby Sacellum of St. Aspreno and adds to the not very numerous pictorial testimonies of the medieval period in the whole of Italy. Illegal excavations in central Naples uncover rare 11th-century medieval church | Euronews