11 amazing Roman finds from Derby
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.
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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.
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.
In 79 CE Pompeii, Herculaneum or the Stabiae were destroyed by the mighty eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The remains of many victims of the cataclysm have survived to our times, giving researchers a chance to conduct in-depth research. In recent days, scientists have published the conclusions of the analysis they carried out on the remains of two victims from Pompeii.
New research may help scientists learn more about the historic passage of Carthaginian general Hannibal and his troops across the Alps during the Second Punic War.
In 2016, an inscription Londini ad fanvm isidis,, which means “To London to the Temple of Isis” was found on the Roman amphora. This proves that London was once the home of this goddess.