Unearthed in Rome’s New Subway: Extinct Elephants and Persian Peach Pits

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Unearthed in Rome’s New Subway: Extinct Elephants and Persian Peach Pits

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDODEC. 18, 2017
 

ROME — The ancient Romans were celebrated for their engineering feats: roads that helped expand an empire; aqueducts that quenched throngs and supplied lavish fountains; monumental bridges, some of which are still in use today.

So it seems apt that a modern engineering achievement — the construction of a new subway line in the city — has given archaeologists a unique opportunity to study this ancient world in extraordinary detail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/world/europe/rome-subway-archaeology.html?action=click&contentCollection=Arts&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article