Discoveries and news in Rome

In 2017, the Italian National Mint minted a collector’s coin that commemorated the 1900th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Hadrian (117-138 CE).

In Chichester, in the south of England, the remains of three Roman-era structures were discovered in 2017. This was done through research and penetration scans.

In the eighteenth century, while conducting excavations in an ancient Roman villa – Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, scientists came across an unusually small piece of metal that could easily fit in a cup of tea. As it turned out this object was a “pocket” Roman sundial.

During the construction works carried out for the third line of the Roman metro, an ancient gold and glass object was discovered showing Roma – the goddess and personification of the ancient city of Rome. The artifact is dated to the 4th century CE.

Discovered in 1992, on the site of the former Roman fort of Vindolanda, in Northumberland (northern England), a mysterious ancient artifact has been re-analyzed by scientists. The latest conclusions of archaeologists may shock – they think it may be an ancient dildo!

Professor Bela Sandor, a lecturer in engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, undertook to study a Roman toy discovered at the bottom of the Tiber in the 1790s. Scientists suspect that the toy was made for a true chariot racing enthusiast around 2,000 years ago.

Another discovery has been made at Masada, an ancient fortress built by king Herod the Great between 37 and 31 BCE. This discovery is the payslip of one of the Roman soldiers. This is a very important discovery due to the fact that it is only the third such document that has survived to our times.

Spanish fisherman made an amazing discovery in 2017. In the vicinity of the island of Cabrera, belonging to the Balearic archipelago, he came across the wreck of a Roman ship, which was probably carrying the famous Roman garum sauce.

Roman amphitheater in Verona is to receive a giant roof to protect the arena and the building itself. In this way, scientists want to counteract the harmful effects of bad weather.

Nero’s Palace, the construction of which allegedly condemned Rome to a fire, can now be admired in a 3D display.