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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.
In 2014, a 2,000-year-old Roman road was discovered on the site of a McDonald’s restaurant in Frattocchie, Italy.
In England, during construction work, a well-preserved fragment of a Roman road was found. According to the preliminary analysis of researchers, the monument maybe 2000 years old.
During construction works carried out in 2017 on the A1 motorway, leading from London to Edinburgh, traces of the existence of Roman urban centres and an ancient road were found.
A temple dedicated to Mithras was discovered on the French island of Corsica. This is the first find of this type in this place. The building was built in the Roman city of Mariana, which was founded in the 1st century BCE.
In 2017, near Guadalajara in central Spain, the ruins of a city from the times of the Roman Empire were found. Archaeologists believe it is Caraca – an ancient city mentioned in the 2nd century CE by the Greek geographer and mathematician Claudius Ptolemy.
