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Roman City with an 8,000-Seat Amphitheater Discovered in Austria
Archaeologists have identified a Roman city beneath fields near the Danube in Austria. Its planned streets cover 25 to 30 hectares, and a newly detected amphitheater could have seated around 8,000 spectators—an unexpected find beside a fort built for only about 500 soldiers. The city lies at Stein, in the municipality of St. Pantaleon-Erla. Researchers…
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Lost Roman Mosaic May Preserve the Only Known Image of a Female Beast Hunter
A Roman mosaic destroyed more than a century ago is reshaping what historians thought they knew about women in the arena. Long treated as a damaged curiosity from ancient Reims, the work is now being reinterpreted as the only known visual depiction of a female beast hunter, or venatrix, in the Roman world. The reassessment,…