Discoveries and news in Rome

The largest stadium in Anatolia (Turkey), in the city of Denizli, has been discovered for over 13 years. Scientists believe that many interesting finds will soon be discovered.

In 2003, the “Dewa Roman Experience” museum in Chester, England, was forced to reduce the stench emanating from a nearly 2,000-year-old Roman latrine.

In Vindolanda (northern England) a mouthpiece for a Roman musical instrument – cornu was discovered. The object was found in the area where the Roman officers’ building (schola) used to be located.

Recent research from Kalkriese, near Osnabrück (western Germany), suggests that this was the place where the Roman legions of Varus last resisted the Germans in the famous Battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE.

In 2017, in a field in Lincolnshire (Eastern England), two treasure hunters discovered an amazing treasure – 281 Roman coins dating back 1700 years.

Archaeologists are conducting excavations on the outskirts of the French city of Vienne, in the southeast of the country. The researchers refer to the study area as ‘little Pompeii’.

Two Roman sarcophagi were accidentally found near a football stadium in Rome in 2017. The objects are made of marble and were probably the last resting place of the dead children of a wealthy Roman family.

In the ancient city of Volubilis, in northern Morocco, remains of a Roman watchtower were found, which was included in the defence system of Mauritania Tingitana, the westernmost Roman province.

An ancient Roman mosaic has been discovered in the Pausilypon Archaeological Park in Naples, which dates back to the end of the 1st century BCE. According to the researchers, the mosaic probably decorated the living room of a luxurious villa, which could have been owned by Publius Vedius Pollio himself. However, this is still only a hypothesis.

In 2017, scientists discovered the remains of a Roman settlement and burial sites in the English countryside of Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire.