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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 9 november 2022
Discovery of bronzes rewrites Italy's Etruscan-Roman history

By NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Italian au-
thorities on Tuesday an-
nounced the extraordinary
discovery of 2,000-year-
old bronze statues in an
ancient Tuscan thermal
spring and said the find will
"rewrite history" about the
transition from the Etrus-
can civilization to the Ro-
man Empire. The discovery,
in the sacred baths of the
San Casciano dei Bagni Archaeologists work at the
archaeological dig near Si- site of the discovery of two
ena, is one of the most sig- dozen well-preserved bronze
nificant ever in the Mediter- statues from an ancient Tuscan
thermal spring in San Casciano
ranean and certainly the dei Bagni, central Italy, in this
most important since the A statue is seen at the site of the discovery of two dozen well-preserved bronze statues from an update photo made available
1972 underwater discovery ancient Tuscan thermal spring in San Casciano dei Bagni, central Italy, in this undated photo by the Italian Culture Ministry,
of the famed Riace bronze made available by the Italian Culture Ministry, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022.
warriors, said Massimo Associated Press Associated Press
Osanna, the Culture Minis- struction of a new museum what is today's Tuscany, like figures of deities, while ears and other anatomi-
try's director of museums. in the area to house the Umbria and Lazio regions, others are of individual cal parts like hands. So, all
Thanks to the mud that antiquities. and yet, the bronze statues body parts and organs these things that curative
protected them, the two- Jacopo Tabolli, who co- show evidence that Etrus- which would have been of- waters and the intervention
dozen figurines and other ordinated the dig for the can and Roman families fered up as votive offerings of the divinities would have
bronze objects were found University for Foreigners in prayed together to deities to the gods for intervention been able to save."
in a perfect state of con- Siena, said the discovery in the sacred sanctuary for medical cures via the The find represents the larg-
servation, bearing delicate was significant because it of the thermal springs. The thermal waters, the ministry est deposit of bronzes from
facial features, inscriptions sheds new light on the end statues, including depic- said in a statement. this era in Italy, notable also
and rippled tunics. Along- of the Etruscan civilization tions of Apollo and Igea, "This is almost an X-ray of because most surviving an-
side the figures were 5,000 and the expansion of the the ancient Greek god and the human insides from the tiquities from the period are
coins in gold, silver and Roman Empire in today's goddess of health, bear lungs to the intestines," said primarily in terracotta, the
bronze, the ministry said. central Italy between the both Etruscan and Latin in- Osanna, gesturing to a lung ministry said.
As evidence of the impor- 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. scriptions. at the restoration labora- "It's a discovery that will re-
tance of the find, the min- The period was marked by Some of the two dozen tory where the bronzes are write history," Tabolli said in
istry announced the con- wars and conflicts across bronzes are entire human- being treated. "There are a statement.q

Residents clash with Chinese authorities over COVID rules

BEIJING (AP) — Police in protection of citizens." have grown dependent vaccines, a closely held se- departure of workers from
northeastern China said Anti-pandemic measures on Chinese manufactur- cret. the factory. Many climbed
that seven people have have prompted backlashes ing and shipping. While the Last week, access to the fences and walked along
been arrested following a across the country, forming rest of the world has most- industrial zone where a fac- highways to avoid being
clash between residents a rarely seen challenge to ly opened up, China has tory that manufactures Ap- placed in quarantine cen-
and authorities enforcing Communist Party authority. taken only highly cautious ple iPhones is located was ters where food, sanita-
COVID-19 quarantine re- It wasn't immediately clear minor steps, with its borders suspended for one week tion and privacy standards
strictions. who was arrested after the still largely closed and offi- following a surge in infec- have been heavily criti-
The violence comes as clash. News of the arrests cials under heavy pressure tions in Zhengzhou and the cized. q
China reports new cases appeared on social media to enforce restrictions.
nationwide, with 2,230 Tuesday morning, but were China reported its trade
cases reported Tuesday in erased by the country's shrank in October as global
the southern manufactur- censors before noon. demand weakened and
ing and technology hub of Chinese leader Xi Jinping anti-virus controls weighed
Guangzhou. has made "zero-COVID" a on domestic consumer
While the numbers re- hallmark of his administra- spending. Exports declined
main relatively low, China tion, which gained a boost 0.3% from a year earlier,
has relentlessly pursued its last month after he was down from September's
strict "zero-COVID" policy granted a third five-year 5.7% growth, the customs
of quarantines, lockdowns term in power and promot- agency reported Monday.
and daily or near-daily ed loyalists to top positions. Imports fell 0.7%, compared
compulsory testing. Those include the former with the previous month's
A news release from the party leader of Shanghai, 0.3% expansion. People use their smartphones to scan the health check QR
police department in the where a draconian lock- Speculation about a pos- codes before getting their routine COVID-19 throat swabs at a
Shandong city of Linyi said down over the summer led sible relaxation of "zero- coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. Police
public security would take to food shortages, con- COVID" roiled markets, but in northeastern China say seven people have been arrested
strong measures against frontations with authorities the government has kept following a clash between residents and authorities enforcing
those who "illegally violated and severe disruptions to its plans, including the pos- COVID-19 quarantine restrictions. Associated Press
the legal rights of personal global supply chains that sibility of importing foreign