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.

In 2015, Italian archaeologists, while conducting excavations in a small village in Tuscany, partially discovered a Roman mosaic. The discovery is located near the local road in the village of Capraia e Limite.

In the remains of the ancient city of Anazarbus in southern Turkey, archaeologists have discovered a gladiator’s ring. The find was in the former arena where gladiators clashed with wild beasts.

New technologies in the field of photography and laser scanning allowed to better study the discovery in ancient Pompeii – the Republican Baths – probably the oldest baths found in this city.

In summer of 2015 were carried out excavations in the Roman city of Augusta Traiana (southern Bulgaria), where a marble gladiator’s head was found.

After 1500 years, one of the 28 wooden machines that used to transport wild animals to the Colosseum arena was reconstructed. Such elevators have transported tens of thousands of terrified wild animals that have taken part in bloody battles to the sand arena throughout history.