If you have found a spelling error, please, notify us by selecting that text and pressing Ctrl+Enter.
The world of ancient Romans abounded in a number of amazing curiosities and information. The source of knowledge about the life of the Romans are mainly works left to us by ancient writers or discoveries. The Romans left behind a lot of strange information and facts that are sometimes hard to believe.
The remains of the earth from the Roman fort at Risingham (northern England), which was called Habitancum in Roman times. Its purpose was to defend the crossing of the Rede River. It was established in about 139 CE and was abandoned in the 4th century CE. The facility could accommodate a detachment of up to 1,000 people.
Verulamium was the third-largest city in Rome in Britain. For some time it was even the provincial capital. Burned during the Boudica revolts, it regained its splendour in the following years, traces of which are still being discovered today. Many public buildings have been erected in the city, including Britain’s largest theatre.
Ancient rotunda in Thessaloniki, Greece, built in 306 CE by order of the Emperor Galerius, who was Caesar in the East, reigned by Diocletian. His domain was especially the Balkans.
Roman theater in Side (southern Turkey), which was built in the 2nd century CE and was able to seat 15,000 spectators.
A few kilometres from the Principality of Monaco, at the top of a 486-meter-high hill, are the imposing remains of the monument. The monument called Trophy of Augustus (Tropaem Augusti or Tropaeum Alpium) was built around 6 BCE, in honour of the victories made in campaigns between 16 and 7 BCE by Emperor Augustus over the Alpine tribes.
During the construction of an underground garage, a Roman bridge was discovered in Parma over the former Parma river bed (the city took its name from the river that flowed nearby). A ford in this place already existed in the third century BCE, as evidenced by numerous coins, from the times of the Republic, found during excavations.
In the north of Croatia, on the Vizula peninsula, there are remains of an exclusive Roman villa that was built in the 1st century CE and was inhabited until the 6th century CE. The building has been rebuilt many times over the centuries.
Roman arch in Rijeka (Croatia) is by no means a triumphal arch. It was the main entrance to the very centre of the late Roman city of Tarsatica (today’s Rijeka). Over time, the arch was surrounded by tenement houses in the Middle Ages.
The Croatian city of Zadar (Iadera) was founded in the middle of the 1st century BCE as a colony in which Roman veterans settled. The city underwent gradual development, and its centre of social, economic and political life was in the forum in the centre of the city. It was established during the reign of the first emperor Octavian Augustus (27 BCE – 14 CE).
