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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.
After 10 years of renovation work, the Archaeological Museum of Polygyros has been opened again. The facility is located in northern Greece and has a truly impressive collection of over a thousand exhibits. The artefacts largely come from Greek culture, but there are also numerous Roman finds.
In the southern province of Turkey, Adana, in the once important ancient city of Misis, excavations are underway to discover the entirety of the windmills dating back to Roman times.
Aphrodisias, a small ancient Greek city in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), turned out to be hiding some really interesting sights. The 2016 archaeological discovery – the giant Roman basin – is set to be fully brought to light within a year.
In 2016, a large Gallo-Roman villa was discovered in Brittany, France. The discovery was made by accident, during the preparations for the construction of a new housing estate.
In Anavarza in southern Turkey, it is likely that a gladiatorial tomb from Roman times was found. If that were true, it was one of the few discovered tombs of this type from antiquity.
Archaeologists discovered the remains of a Roman presence in Whitchurch, in the west of England, in 2016.
The bowl in which the birds bathed turned out to be a 2000-year-old Roman vessel – a mortarium. Such information comes to us from Alcester, England.
Scientists have carried out studies of Roman amphoras, discovered a few years ago on the coast of Latium, in order to understand the composition of ancient wine. As it turns out, local grapes were used for the production of wine, and resin and various spices from different parts of Europe were used to diversify the taste. Sicily or the south of Italy. Moreover, both cultivated and wild grapes were used to produce wine.
In 2016, scientists found evidence stating where the ancient Romans breached the third wall line that once encircled Jerusalem. This site was at the end of the Second Temple, where Migrash HaRussim is now located, residential development in the city centre.
