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All the latest information about discoveries from the world of ancient Romans. I encourage you to let me know about any Roman news and to indicate any corrections or inaccuracies. I try to search for material everywhere, but it is natural that not everything will be noticed by me.
Roman road was discovered in Bosnia that was hidden in the north-eastern part of the country. The discovery was made on the slope of Mount Konjuh in a dense forest. Currently, the road has been made available to tourists for sightseeing and it is possible to travel on it.
In northern Portugal, in the town of Melgaço, the remains of a Roman camp that was used for the conquest of the northwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula were discovered.
In southwestern Spain, near the city of Canos de Meca, the remains of a Roman bath were found. Interestingly, the object was under sand and covers an area of approximately 2.5 acres. So far, two rooms have been extracted from under the sand.
In the Italian town of Isernia, in the southern part of Italy, a two-thousand-year-old marble head has been discovered that appears to represent the young Octavian Augustus – the first emperor of Rome.
In the north-western part of Romania, near the village of Sutoru, a Roman road was discovered during the construction of the A3 highway, which certainly allowed to connect the nearby Roman castrum Optatiana.
In southeastern Turkey, Diyarbakir, a 2000-year-old Roman road was discovered. Researchers plan to continue the excavation work and no more information is available at the moment.
During the construction of a new gas station in Avellino, Campania, workers stumbled on the remains of an ancient wall that was considered part of an ancient amphitheater.
Scientists, thanks to the use of the latest technologies and computers, were able to reconstruct the 1,800-year-old mail and observe how it could be worn and how it behaved during combat.
X-rays allowed scientists to extract individual letters from damaged documents from the library in Herculaneum. The culprit was the volcano Vesuvius, which in 79 CE unexpectedly erupted and destroyed Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. The cataclysm did not spare the library with valuable works of the great thinkers of that time. The library was especially full of works by Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110 – c. 39 BCE), a Greek poet and philosopher from the Epicurean school who taught the poet Virgil.
A hiding place was found in southern Scotland, where lead slingshots for slingshots were stored. It is believed to be the largest find of its kind in Britain. The discovery was made on an excavation conducted in Burnswark, in the city of Dumfries.
