Discoveries and news in Rome

Scientists, thanks to the use of the latest technologies and computers, were able to reconstruct the 1,800-year-old mail and observe how it could be worn and how it behaved during combat.

X-rays allowed scientists to extract individual letters from damaged documents from the library in Herculaneum. The culprit was the volcano Vesuvius, which in 79 CE unexpectedly erupted and destroyed Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. The cataclysm did not spare the library with valuable works of the great thinkers of that time. The library was especially full of works by Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110 – c. 39 BCE), a Greek poet and philosopher from the Epicurean school who taught the poet Virgil.

A hiding place was found in southern Scotland, where lead slingshots for slingshots were stored. It is believed to be the largest find of its kind in Britain. The discovery was made on an excavation conducted in Burnswark, in the city of Dumfries.

3D visualization of the last discovered Roman chariot in Pompeii. The chariot was probably used during the procession. The object, as well as the whole city, was buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE.

The amazing discovery was made in the suburban villa of Civita Giuliana, just north of Pompeii. The find is a Roman four-wheeled beautifully decorated chariot that was probably used during the procession. The object, as well as the whole city, was buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.

Scientists have successfully completed the restoration of one of the oldest Pompeian frescoes, which show hunting scenes, statues and temples. The fresco adorned the wall of the inner garden and was sure to delight the guests of the residence.

In Bulgaria, in the vicinity of the Roman fort Sostra (near the present city of Troyan, central Bulgaria), in 2014, archaeologists found traces of a Roman luxurious road station (mansio).

Discovered in late 2017/2018 along the A14 road in Cambridgeshire, eastern England, a Roman milestone revealed a curiosity. The folded stone turned out to be embossed with the outline of the penis on top.

The Digital Augustan Rome project is a great source of knowledge and research material on Rome during the Emperor Augustus period. Digital Augustan Rome is a project that is to be a worthy successor to the published Mapping Augustan Rome map collection, which appeared in the Journal of Roman Archeology Series in 2002 year.

Last year, scientists were able to virtually reconstruct a villa in Pompeii, which was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.