Discoveries and news in Rome

As we learn from the research, public baths, latrines, sewers, fountains and clean drinking water did not protect the ancient Romans from parasites at all.

Grant Adamson of Rice University in Houston read a letter from Egyptian soldier Aurelius Polion, written in Greek on papyrus 1,800 years ago.

Ostia Antica was a Roman port, the ruins of which, preserved to this day, are among the largest in terms of area in Italy. It has now been calculated that the remains of the colony can be found in the area of ​​5 hectares.

Students from Theaterakademie August Everding created from silicone extremely realistic portraits of Roman emperors, based on marble busts and scientific research. The images can be seen together with the originals at the Munich Gliptotheque (Germany).

A huge model of Rome from the 4th century CE (the so-called Plastico di Roma Imperiale) is the work of the archaeologist and architect Italo Gismondi, who worked on it for a large part of his life (1935-1971). In his work, Gismondi partly used the work of Rodolfo Lanciani – the map Forma Urbis from 1901.

Roman road was discovered in Bosnia that was hidden in the north-eastern part of the country. The discovery was made on the slope of Mount Konjuh in a dense forest. Currently, the road has been made available to tourists for sightseeing and it is possible to travel on it.

In northern Portugal, in the town of Melgaço, the remains of a Roman camp that was used for the conquest of the northwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula were discovered.

In southwestern Spain, near the city of Canos de Meca, the remains of a Roman bath were found. Interestingly, the object was under sand and covers an area of ​​approximately 2.5 acres. So far, two rooms have been extracted from under the sand.

In the Italian town of Isernia, in the southern part of Italy, a two-thousand-year-old marble head has been discovered that appears to represent the young Octavian Augustus – the first emperor of Rome.

In the north-western part of Romania, near the village of Sutoru, a Roman road was discovered during the construction of the A3 highway, which certainly allowed to connect the nearby Roman castrum Optatiana.