Discoveries and news in Rome

In 2016, a 1,600-year-old glass workshop was discovered in Israel, which proves that Judea was once an important glass manufacturing centre for the Roman Empire.

In Pompeii, tourists can see with their own eyes what Roman cuisine looked like. In the hall of the Fullonica di Stephanus house, there are pots and pans that were once used by employees.

Archaeologists announced that they most likely found the remains of a Roman glass factory in Bristol (south-west England). According to researchers, the center was established between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE. A small amount of industrial waste has survived to our times, including a fragment of a crucible and glass waste.

In the east of England, in the village of Long Melford, a two-thousand-year-old dog skull was discovered. The researchers concluded that the animal was of a breed similar to a terrier; the remains of the dog were among the remains of buildings from the Iron Age and pottery.

Thanks to Ingeniería Romana, we can admire the fantastic reconstruction of the Roman circus in Tarragona (then the city of Tarraco).

In 2016, construction works carried out in the very centre of Rochester in England brought to light a fragment of a 2000-year-old Roman road.

A year after the discovery of an interesting Roman villa in Scarborough (North East England), a decision was made to undertake archaeological excavations and the restoration of the remains. According to the researchers, the house had several rooms, and its central part was an unusually round room. There was also a bathhouse in the villa, which had the size of two tennis courts.

Interesting finds were discovered in the waters of the Caesarea port off the coast of Israel in 2016. It is the largest discovery in this country in 30 years.

In 2016, a waiter accidentally damaged a famous Roman statue at the British Museum. Luckily, the statue only lost a thumb.

Two skeletons have been discovered in London’s Lant Street Cemetery in Southwark, possibly of Chinese origin. Interestingly, scientists date them to the period of the 2nd-4th century CE, which means that the Chinese still appeared in Roman Britain.