Discoveries and news in Rome

In 2016, a Roman villa was discovered by accident in Wiltshire, southern England. The owner of the house, who was laying electrical cables in his garden, found the remains of the building.

In 2016, construction workers in Spain, while working on sewer pipes, discovered 600 kg of coins from the times of ancient Rome.

Archaeologists have discovered numerous lead missiles that the ancient Romans used to fight the barbarians in Scotland. Due to their construction, the shells made a whistling sound during the flight, which was supposed to scare the enemy.

Three Roman busts have been discovered in the English village of Stoke Mandeville. Two show adults: a man and a woman; the remaining child.

Footprints and hoof prints of several animals have been spotted on Roman plates in Leicester, England.

A safe has been stolen from the Roman catacombs. It was located in the director’s office in the Catacombs of Priscilla. The incident took place in the morning.

Archaeologists re-examining and evaluating objects discovered in 1970 in the London suburb of Brentford, found them dating back to the 4th century CE fragment of a pottery product with an engraved Christian symbol. The item has a monogram composed of the first two letters of the Greek word Khristos, meaning Christ.

Scientists have managed to find evidence that the recently found remains, about 2,000 years old, belonged to immigrants. The remains of the bodies were found in the then Roman cemetery.

In the south of Turkey, in the Hatay Province, there is a 2,400-year-old mosaic. The work shows a human skeleton with a vase in hand, bread and a jug of wine. As it turns out, there is also an interesting inscription on it.

Scientists selected the complete mitochondrial genome of a 2500-year-old Phoenician. The study found that the man had European ancestors. This is the first ancient DNA recovered from Phoenician remains.