If you build a new Metro line in Rome, you have to worry about more than just engineering. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the construction team working on the Metro C, which will run through the center of the city, has now unearthed a huge suite of ancient barracks. Read more…
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Metro Engineers Unearth 10,000 Square Feet of Ruins Beneath Rome
A cache of over 4, 000 silver and bronze coins dating back to ancient Rome has been discovered by a Swiss farmer. Buried some 1, 700 years ago, it’s one of the largest treasures of its kind ever found in Switzerland. Read more…
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Farmer Discovers Priceless Trove of Ancient Roman Coins While Removing a Molehill
Ennion made me. Those were the words that emerged as archeologists brushed centuries of dust off glass vessels in digs all over the classical world, again and again. But who was Ennion? And how, in the early years of the modern world, did he make so much glass? Read more…
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The First Brand Manager Was a 1st Century Roman Glassblower
If archaeology was once about digging through dirt, it is increasingly—like almost every other profession—about programming computers. Bernie Frischer, an Indiana University “archaeo-informaticist, ” has came up with a new theory about two Roman monuments. His finding are based on 3D reconstructions of the monuments using video game technology and calculations of the sun’s position 2, 000 years ago. Read more…
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Archaeologist Uses 2,000-Year-Old Sky to Study Roman Ruins