And finally… Construction workers stumble upon ‘sensational’ Roman discovery
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A group of construction workers have accidentally made the “sensational discovery” of the oldest aqueduct to be built in the city of Rome, The Metro has reported.
In the city’s heyday, a network of aqueducts supplied clean water and took it away in sewers, a pioneering approach to hygiene.
Historians thought they had discovered all that there was to find, but at the end of last year a new stretch of what is believed to be the oldest aqueduct in the city was found.
Simona Morretta, who led the team of archaeologists, announced the find this month after investigations into where and when it was from.
It dates back 2,300 years and is believed to be part of the Aqua Appia, built in 312BC.
It is the oldest Roman aqueduct that we know about.
But this stretch was buried underground for centuries, only discovered during construction of a new metro line.
Workers found it beneath the Piazza Celimontana, slightly to the south-east of the Colosseum.
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