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All the latest information about discoveries from the world of ancient Romans. I encourage you to let me know about any Roman news and to indicate any corrections or inaccuracies. I try to search for material everywhere, but it is natural that not everything will be noticed by me.
A treasure of 175 silver Roman coins has been discovered in a forest in Tuscany, Italy. The coins date back to 82 BCE, i.e. the time when a bloody civil war took place in Italy, in which Lucius Cornelius Sulla seized power in Rome.
An operation is underway to recover the wreck of a Roman ship from the 4th century CE, off the coast of Misiliscemi, in the area of Trapani, in western Sicily. 500,000 euros have been allocated for the action and the expected time of extraction of the artifact is 270 days.
Roman mausoleum and well-preserved floor mosaics have been discovered in southern London. According to the researchers, people from the upper social classes were buried in this place.
At the Carlisle Cricket Club in northern England, two heads of Roman sculptures have been discovered, which date back to the 2nd century CE. The entire sculptures, according to the researchers, could be up to 4.5 meters high.
Roman coins (3rd-4th centuries CE) have been discovered in South Wales, Monmouthshire, vessels from various periods of the Iron Age; including an interesting find with an ornament in the shape of an ox’s head.
As we can read in the latest Ancient History Magazine (no. 44), recent research in Herculaneum and Pompeii proves that the inhabitants of both cities, as a result of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, died in a different way.
In the south of Spain, in what is now the city of Carmona (ancient Carmo), Roman perfumes were found in a tomb. The burial place certainly belonged to a rich family; urns were found in the tomb, in which the remains of six people (three women and three men) were buried.
Two Roman mosaics and the foundations of an ancient building have been discovered in via Sant’Antonio in Teramo (central Italy). The discovery took place during the renovation of a modern road.
Remains of a Roman fort, the so-called Watling Lodge which was situated on the famous Antonine Wall which passed through central Scotland. The discovery was made thanks to geophysical research.
In Richborough (south-eastern Britain) a Roman gate with a fragment of defensive walls was reconstructed. It was built exactly in the place where the building used to be.
