06-09-2020, 04:46 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020...roman-city Archaeologists have mapped a complete Roman city for the first time using ground-penetrating radar, revealing highly detailed images that they say could revolutionise our understanding of how such sites worked.
As well as a bath house, theatre, shops and several temples, the team from the universities of Cambridge and Ghent have discovered a large public monument of a kind never seen before, which may relate to the religious practices of the people who lived in the area before the Romans.
The detailed scanning of the town of Falerii Novi, just over 30 miles (50km) north of Rome, has uncovered the layout of the city’s water system, offering new clues to how it was planned and laid out.
In addition, experts say their research reveals evidence of a route around the outskirts of the city that was probably used as a religious processional way, and which was unlikely to have been uncovered by excavation alone.
Well, I've known this ground-penetrating radar to make some amazing discoveries over the years, but this is the most ambitious I've heard of up until now!
It seems they've already managed to make some quite detailed discoveries (for example, mapping out the entire city's water system). Still, perhaps they can find even more by digging later on
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