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Stolen Pompeii Roof Decoration Returned 50 Years Later

By Cesare Martignon   Posted in NEWS
Posted on 1 November 201419 April 2016

A 70-year-old Italian Canadian woman recently returned a first-century AD terracotta roof decoration that she stole from Pompeii. The woman repented her theft of the antefix – a carved vertical slab blocking the covering tiles of an ancient roof – from a colonnaded courtyard behind the theater at the archaeological site in June 1964 during …

University of Pisa Patents New Olive Oil-Extraction Method

By Cesare Martignon   Posted in NEWS
Posted on 1 November 201419 April 2016

  The University of Pisa has devised a new and patented method of extracting extra-virgin olive oil.   Designed by agricultural scientists at the University of Pisa led by Professor Gianpaolo Andrich, the innovative technique uses dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) to achieve a nine percent average higher yield (17.4kg instead of 16kg of product …

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