The Hungarian National Museum (Hungarian: Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum) was founded in 1802 and is the national museum for the history, art, and archaeology of Hungary, including areas not within Hungary's modern borders, such as Transylvania; it is not to be confused with the collection of international art in the Hungarian National Gallery. The museum is in Budapest VIII in a Neoclassical building, purpose-built during 1837–47 by the architect Mihály Pollack.
The Bronze Age tell settlement of Százhalombatta-Földvár is one of the most detailed studied ancient sites in Central Europe dating from c. 2000–1400 BC. It is located on the right bank of the Danube, south of Budapest. Annual archaeological excavations have been conducted for over 25 years as part of the “Százhalombatta Archaeological Expedition (SAX)” project. Finds of vitrified clay—a molten glass phase that contains unmolten material—were available for investigations. The glass phase is composed of approximately 8.5 wt
Recently, a new monotypic geometrid moth genus and species, Mirlatia arcuata Hausmann, László, Mayr & Huemer, 2023, were described from Croatia. The description was based on a single male collected in 1983, and a single female collected in 1982. The discovery of an isolated lineage in Europe was unexpected because the Geometridae fauna of the continent is likely the best explored in the world. Upon description, the systematic position of Mirlatia arcuata remained unresolved due to its peculiar morphology and lack of suitable molecular data to study its phylogenetic position. Based on a new specimen collected in 2024, we studied its phylogeny, including it in a maximum likelihood multi-gene global phylogenetic dataset of 1206 taxa, and comparative morphological analysis. Based on the results of our integrative approach, we propose to classify this enigmatic species in a monotypic tribe Mirlatiini Sihvonen & Hausmann, tribe nov . within the basal Larentiinae as the sister to Brabirodini. Other proposed taxonomic changes include reclassification of Brabira Moore, 1888 in Brabirodini and Tyloptera Christoph, 1881 in Larentiinae: incertae sedis . We illustrate closely related genera in Mirlatiini, Brabirodini and Dyspteridini, for taxonomic clarity.
We compared type material of Epithemia argentina described by Brun, as well as other collections with type material of two purported synonymous taxa, E. debyi and E. multicostata, described by Pantocsek, based on light and scanning electron microscopy. All three taxa were transferred to the genus Rhopalodia by M & uuml;ller. R. argentina has robust costate fibulae, a large tubular canal raphe, striae in single to double rows of areolae, and volate occlusions with a single point of attachment and positioned internally. R. argentina is distinguished from R. debyi and R. multicostata by costate fibula density and shape of the valves. The latter two species are considered heterotypic synonyms of each other. The distributions of these species over time and space are discussed.
Abstract A richly furnished Sarmatian period grave from the second half of the 4th or early-5th centuries in Szolnok-Helikopterbázis revealed a young woman that thanks to its greater depth, managed to avoid the looters' attention. The most striking finds were her silver earrings adorned with two Sarmatian coin imitations. She was laid to rest silver three brooches and a silver torque with a lock mechanism with parallels to the north and east. The coin imitations, copying early 4th-century Roman originals, are also unique as is the way of subsequently combining them with the earrings. The grave's artefacts highlight high status and innovative ornamentation, offering new insights into Sarmatian cultural expressions.
