Discoveries and news in Rome

Archaeologists excavating the site where Bloomberg’s new London headquarters is to be built in 2016 found 405 handwritten tablets. 87 of them have already been read.

In February of this year, in London, a preserved Roman mosaic was discovered in the Liberty of Southwark, which is the largest find of its type in over 50 years. The object probably decorated the dining room and dates back to the 2nd-3rd century CE.

In the Greco-Roman city of Hippos in Israel, near Lake Tiberias, a 1.8 m tall Roman gate was discovered next to a stone structure in 2016.

Roman baths and tombs were discovered in Rome in the suburbs of the city – Casal Bernocchi. Construction works were carried out for the future Orthodox church.

The area around today’s Derby was once a Roman city with hundreds of people. As it turns out, it was the earliest organized centre in the area.

More than 170 years ago, Scottish workers cleaning a field of stone with dynamite discovered three beautiful silver artefacts: a spiral bracelet, a chain, and a pin. However, instead of searching the area for new finds, they went back to work as instructed. For years the field was forgotten.

During construction work near the city of Modi’in in Israel, a hiding place with 16 rare silver coins dating back to the 1st century BCE was discovered. – scientists estimate that the coins were smelted between 135 and 126 BCE.

In 2016, a 2,000-year-old Roman shoe was found in a well in Saalburg, Germany.

Eight Roman gold coins found at excavations in Kalkriese (Lower Saxony), Germany, prove that one of the most famous battles of antiquity may have taken place there. It is also possible that someone has hidden the coins on purpose.

Historians have successfully decrypted a 2,000-year-old inscription carved on a monument in honour of a Roman-era “jockey” Lukuyanus in the city of Beyşehir, Turkey.