The Black Soil of Ljubljana Marshes and the Treasures Beneath
The vast Ljubljana Marshes, a 163 square kilometers of flat, marshy land south of Ljubljana, are a strangely beautiful place, rich in...
Eager Wannabe Aerial Archaeologists Visit Prlekija
Inspired by fantastic aerial archaeology work by dr. John Wells (who uses kites for flying the cameras!), with last summer's discoveries...
Arcadia: Dornava Manor and the Grand Baroque Axis
Et in Arcadia ego ... Baroque style - fodder for the masses, as the poet wrote - was both flamboyant and organized; countering the...
Death on the Plain - Iron Age Burial Mounds of Podlože
In the middle of the fertile plain below Ptujska Gora, south of river Drava, stands a group of burial mounds or barrows. They date to the...
Dawn of Civilization
Tens of housands of years ago the vast plain of Ljubljana Marshes was a lake. 120 square kilometres covered in water a couple of meters...
Finding a Roman Camp
Upper Pivka Valley is an archaeological treasure trove, with numerous Iron Age hillforts and settlements, with Roman villae, tradeposts...
Unica River Revisited
So, in late February we visited Planina karst field and river Unica running through it - and we saw something strange in the bed of the...
A Rogue Kite and a Cool Discovery
(***UPDATE Aug 3*** - after the experts of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts looked into all this, there...
Borders in the Roman Empire
The precursor of Ljubljana, the roman Emona - Colonia Iulia Emona - was founded by Augustus in the first decades of the first century AD,...
Prehistoric pile dwellings
Ljubljana Marshes boast a rich and complex history. 6.500 years ago there was a shallow lake covering the area, and people settled on it...
