In 2015, the bodies of Pompeii inhabitants, buried by the volcanic ash of Vesuvius in 79 CE was renovated. The preserved attitudes of the Pompeians perfectly reflect the drama of the events that must have taken place on that fateful day. Conservators are currently working on plaster casts of 86 Romans who died in the cataclysm.

In 2015, the Israeli police caught an illegal antique coin dealer. The services discovered over 3,000 illegally stored coins in his home in northern Israel. Their value is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars.

In 2015, archaeologists from the University of Exeter, during excavations on a Roman road, discovered the remains of an ancient pitcher near Ipplepen, England.

In 2015, an extraordinary discovery was made in the ancient city of Aksum in northern Ethiopia. In tombs dated to the 1st-2nd century CE. Amazing jewellery from the Roman Empire was found, which proves that the Romans established trade contacts with the state of Aksum hundreds of years earlier than previously thought.

In 2014, a group of scientists discovered an interesting find in one of the Egyptian temples. A bas-relief carved on a stone wall shows Emperor Claudius dressed like an Egyptian pharaoh in a heavily ornamented crown. In the sculpture, the emperor, reigning in the years 41-54 CE, raises a huge pole topped with a crescent moon. The painting also shows eight men, each wearing a cap with two bird feathers, climbing the support poles.

About 40 skeletons with their heads severed from Roman times have been discovered. According to researchers, the bodies were probably buried in an ancient cemetery dating back to 410 CE. The discovery was made during work on a new road in the village of Fleet Marston in the south of England. Probably the buried people had problems with the law and came from low social levels.

Archaeologists are conducting research on Monte Testaccio, a large artificial mountain in the centre of Rome, which consists of about 25 million fragments of broken amphorae, for example from Spain or North Africa. This place hides many intriguing facts about how people traded in antiquity.

In 2015, British scientists discovered new fragments of the border wall, which proves that the capital of the Empire was larger than previously thought. The wall was discovered in Ostia. Scientists believed that the Tiber was the northern border of Ostia, but this discovery proved that the wall continued beyond the river.

In 2015 scientists believed that they have found a way to learn about the contents of the only ancient library that has survived to our times. The library is located in a villa in Herculaneum, a city that in 79 CE was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

In 2015, a Roman tent in very good condition was discovered at an archaeological site in Vindolanda (northern England). The object was made of animal skin.