Ostia
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French and Italian archaeologists have located the site of the original port of Rome (i.e. Ostia), which has been much disputed over the years. The English coverage of this really doesn’t do the original press release from the CNRS justice, so to quickly summarize, they took core samples from a site near the Imperial Palace…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Francesca Tronchin for finding this one … from ANSA: An ancient ship has emerged from the ground at the Imperial Roman port of Ostia in a find Culture Minister Giancarlo Galan said “gives you goose bumps”. An 11-metre section of one of the ship’s sides has so far been discovered,…
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The incipit of a very interesting item from the Telegraph: Scholars discovered the 100-yard-wide (90-metre-wide) canal at Portus, the ancient maritime port through which goods from all over the Empire were shipped to Rome for more than 400 years. The archaeologists, from the universities of Cambridge and Southampton and the British School at Rome, believe…
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The skinny: it dates from the second half of the first century A.D. (based on it apparently demonstrating a transition from cremation to inhumation) and most of the occupants seem to be low-status males (skeletal remains show evidence of a life of ‘hard labour’) … Resti di una necropoli di epoca romana sono stati scoperti…
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