Roman Archaeology

  • This story is actually a week or so old, but I had to do some investigating … the source for most of the coverage appears to be a report in ANSA; an excerpt: […] The sixth-century BC abode had a rectangular layout most likely divided into two rooms, on a tufa stone base and with…

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  • Roman Vicus at Gernsheim

    A Goethe-Universitat press release: FRANKFURT/GERNSHEIM. During their first Gernsheim dig last year, Frankfurt University archaeologists suspected that a small Roman settlement must have also existed here in the Hessian Ried. Now they have discovered clear relics of a Roman village, built in part on the foundations of the fort after the soldiers left. This probably…

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