Discoveries and news in Rome

Italian police are investigating after an underground “lake” of the spilt oil has been found in the Roman catacombs along the Apian Road. The place has been secured by the police.

The tavern, which was covered in 2016, is located in Lattara (now Lattes), an ancient port in the south of France, which was known to scientists earlier from ancient sources, but only recognized in 1963.

In 2016, archaeologists discovered three burial inscriptions, approximately 1,700 years old, in a Roman cemetery in the ancient city of Sepphoris, near Lake Tiberias.

The latest skeleton research has revealed a lot of new information about fallen men suspected of fighting in the arena as gladiators. DNA analysis showed that the deceased in childhood were in poor health and trained in the use of weapons.

A piece of the world’s oldest unsolved puzzle, a 2,200-year-old map of Rome made up of thousands of marble pieces, has finally been fitted.

A sarcophagus dating back to late Roman times, weighing almost seven tons, was discovered by the Turkish farmer Hatice Sürena in an olive grove near the city of Bursa.

In 2016, a 1,600-year-old winery was discovered in Jerusalem. The discovery was made on a construction site on the site of an orphanage, outside the old city walls.

Construction work on the site of the former Leicester bus station in England allowed archaeologists to conduct more detailed research. This had unexpected results.

On the Libyan coast, in the area of ​​the ancient port of Ptolemais, a Roman villa with numerous mosaics and coins was discovered.

In 2015, in Umbria, Italy, an Etruscan tomb with sarcophagi inside, dated to the end of the 4th century BCE, was discovered. The discovery was made by a local farmer near the small town of Città della Pieve, about 40 km from Perugia.