Discoveries and news in Rome

In 2014, archaeologists from Czersk, Legions and Otwock discovered hairpins, arrowheads and swords from Roman times.

In 2016, a team of archaeologists discovered the remains of a structure in France that they believed could have served as a local tavern in Roman times around 2,100 years ago.

Members of the “Altair4 Multimedia” team digitally recreate the look of Ara Pacis – the “Altar of Peace” commissioned by the Senate on the occasion of its return Octavian Augustus to Rome, in the year 13 BCE.

A team from the Italian Archaeological Mission in Luxor (MAIL), in 2015, discovered bodies covered with a thick layer of lime. Lime has been used since antiquity as a disinfectant. The researchers found the find during excavations at the Harwa and Akhimenru funerary complex on the western edge of the ancient city of Thebes (now Luxor).

Palaeobotanists recreated the ancient wine that was drunk in ancient Rome two thousand years ago. For this purpose, orchards with grapes were created in Pompeii and the cultivation of plants was undertaken in the way the Romans did before the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE.

In September, information appeared that in the ancient city of Alabanda (near Çine, in the west of Turkey), during the ongoing excavations, a statue of Hadrian was discovered in fragments.

Scientists suspect that the image of the emperor was immortalized in connection with his visit to the city in 120 CE. The statue could be two and a half meters high and, according to archaeologists, it was probably destroyed by Christians in the following years.

Archaeologists who once conducted excavations in the capital of Carthage at the Circus there discovered that the Carthaginians used an advanced system to cool horses and chariots.

Research by Italian researchers shows that a typical Roman worker did not live to be 30 years old. Scientists used the latest technology to scan found skeletons from ancient times.

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.