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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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Nearly 300 Roman Coins Found Where Soldiers May Have Buried Their Pay on Croatia’s Danube Frontier
Nearly 300 Roman coins have been discovered near the Danube in eastern Croatia, where archaeologists believe a small frontier garrison may have buried its pay during a moment of danger. The hoard was unearthed in Mohovo, a village on the banks of the Danube River, during archaeological excavations focused on the Roman Empire’s defensive network…
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Centurion of the First Italic Legion Revealed in Newly Discovered Nove Necropolis Grave
On the edge of the Danube, where Rome once stationed thousands of soldiers — including those of the First Italic Legion — to guard its northern frontier, a broken slab of stone has quietly returned a forgotten name to history. Rescue excavations in the western necropolis of Nove, near modern Svishtov in Bulgaria, have identified…
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A Hidden Mithras Temple Found Beneath Regensburg Reveals Bavaria’s Oldest Roman Cult Site
In the very center of Regensburg, where medieval streets and baroque façades dominate the eye, something far older has surfaced. Quietly. Almost accidentally. What began as a routine archaeological assessment in the Old Town has led to one of the most consequential Roman discoveries in Bavaria in years: the remains of a Mithraeum—a sanctuary dedicated…
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An Exceptionally Heavy 1,800-Year-Old Gold Roman Fidelity Ring Discovered at Bononia
Nearly six meters beneath the streets of modern Vidin, archaeologists uncovered an exceptionally heavy gold Roman fidelity ring lost nearly 1,800 years ago—an object that speaks not of war or imperial power, but of marriage, status, and social identity in the Roman world. The discovery was made during the final days of the 2025 excavation…