Discoveries and news in Rome

Workers installing the gas pipeline on Via Alfonso Lamora in the centre of Rome made an interesting discovery in 2015. At first, they thought they had hit a funnel. Only with time, it turn out that they found a room that was over 2000 years old.

In 2015, the Roman basilica was opened to the public in honour of the esoteric deity, which is located 12 meters below the street level. The structure is made of hard volcanic tuff and was located on the outskirts of the “eternal city”.

In south-eastern Turkey, in the city of Aydin, archaeologists unearthed valuable artefacts from a closed chamber in 2016. The finds date back over 2000 years, that is, from the period of the early Roman conquests.

The authorities of the Italian capital, Rome, want to get rid of disguised legionaries and centurions from under the Colosseum, who generate a lot of profit by taking photos with themselves. One of the “actors” can earn 400 euros a day. The greedy people make a monthly profit of 12,000 euros, demanding up to 50 euros for a photo.

In 2015, a Swiss farmer made an unexpected discovery in his orchard – over 4,100 coins that date back to ancient Rome. According to archaeologists, the find is over 1,700 years old. The place of the find is Ueken, a town located in the northern canton of Aargau.

In 2016, scientists conducted research to determine the origin of white marble, which is used en masse to cover Roman buildings.

In 2015, Italian archaeologists discovered a Roman shipwreck that was carrying thousands of jugs full of ancient Romans’ ketchup at that time – garum.

In 2015, Islamic State fighters blew up a 2,000-year-old monument – the Triumphal Arch in Palmyra. The building was an icon of a once-powerful and wealthy city.

The sculpture of the head of Medusa was unearthed in 2015 in the south of Turkey, in the ancient town of Antiochia ad Cragum. The city was founded around 170 BCE by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the ruler of Syria of the Seleucid dynasty.

Tourists visiting the Eternal City can admire the city from 2015, just like the ancient Romans did; and this is due to the newly rebuilt seven-story ramp leading to the Palatine Hill.