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.

In 2016, a limestone cemetery dating back to Roman times was discovered in the city of Rakhleh in the Qatana region of Syria (40 km west of Damascus). The discoverer is a farmer who came across the tomb while working in the field.

In the coming months, projects will be implemented in the port of Ostia Antica, in which the Italian government, private organizations and international universities will actively participate. Ostia was a large port of ancient Rome that received huge shipments of grain, wine and olive oil from North Africa and South Italy to feed one million of the city’s inhabitants.

In 2016, archaeologists began excavating two sites in Bath, England. These places were completely forgotten for over half a century.