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    2000-Year-Old Room With Frescoes Discovered in Central Rome, Italy

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    A 2000-year-old room plastered with frescoes was accidentally discovered 4 meters below a busy street in central Rome during roadwork. When workers dug a hole for a gas pipeline, a large chasm opened up revealing the frescoed room of a once luxurious Roman home. Archaeologists have dated the find to the first century AD based on the room's depth and pictures of the frescoes. The discovery of an intact room underground is rare and excites archaeologists as it was found under an area that was once part of the Emperor's luxurious Lamian Gardens.

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    A 2000-year-old room plastered with frescoes was accidentally discovered 4 meters below a busy street in central Rome during roadwork. When workers dug a hole for a gas pipeline, a large chasm opened up revealing the frescoed room of a once luxurious Roman home. Archaeologists have dated the find to the first century AD based on the room's depth and pictures of the frescoes. The discovery of an intact room underground is rare and excites archaeologists as it was found under an area that was once part of the Emperor's luxurious Lamian Gardens.

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    A 2000-year-old room plastered with frescoes was accidentally discovered 4 meters below a busy street in central Rome during roadwork. When workers dug a hole for a gas pipeline, a large chasm opened up revealing the frescoed room of a once luxurious Roman home. Archaeologists have dated the find to the first century AD based on the room's depth and pictures of the frescoes. The discovery of an intact room underground is rare and excites archaeologists as it was found under an area that was once part of the Emperor's luxurious Lamian Gardens.

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    A 2000-year-old room plastered with frescoes was accidentally discovered 4 meters below a busy street in central Rome during roadwork. When workers dug a hole for a gas pipeline, a large chasm opened up revealing the frescoed room of a once luxurious Roman home. Archaeologists have dated the find to the first century AD based on the room's depth and pictures of the frescoes. The discovery of an intact room underground is rare and excites archaeologists as it was found under an area that was once part of the Emperor's luxurious Lamian Gardens.

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    2000-Year-Old Room With Frescoes

    Discovered In Central Rome, Italy


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    AncientPages.com A 2000-year-old room plastered with frescoes was accidentally


    discovered during routine roadworks to install a gas pipeline under a busy street in central
    Rome, Italy.
    The find was made in the middle of November, when workmen started to dig a hole for the
    pipeline in Via Alfonso Lamora.
    As they began to remove pieces of earth from the road, a large chasm opened up in the road
    extending down into the dark, four meters below.

    A 2000-year old frescoed room has been discovered under a busy Roman street.
    Photo:Archaeological Superintendency Rome
    At first, the workmen thought it was an ordinary sinkhole and called in speleologists or
    cave experts to investigate. However, when the experts reached the bottom of the large
    cavern they were surprised to find themselves standing in the frescoed room of a once
    luxurious Roman home.
    The partial discovery of the room has excited archaeologists who have dated the find to the
    first century AD, based on the depth at which it was found and the pictures speleologists took
    of the frescoes.
    Finding a room under the street is rare, the archaeologist responsible for the newly
    discovered site, Mirella Serlorenzi, told The Local.
    We do get archaeological finds from between 60 and 50 percent of all roadworks though.
    The area around the site once belonged to the luxurious Emperors gardens known as the
    Horti Lamiani (Lamian Gardens), which is the place where Julius Ceasar was partially
    cremated and buried.

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