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News is out that a Roman city, abandoned near 452 A.D., has recently been found near Venice. Italian archaeologists find lost Roman city of Altinum near VeniceThe article says the city was "one of the richest cities of the Roman empire" but was abandoned in the face of the Huns who were closing in at the time. The city will obviously not have the impact of a Pompeii when unearthed, but it should still be quite a find. The archaeology team was able to find structures based on photos of the terrain, and they said they could make identifications based on colors of the contours. Here is a satellite photo based on the coordinates, and you can definitely see something was there (I presume it's part of Altinum):[html]View Larger Map[/html]
Yes it does look like something was there. I guess we will have to wait until the dig is really under way to find out how much though. The picture kind of reminds me of aerial photos of Alesia I have seen. You can still vaguely see the siege lines that Caesar built there.
Check out this cool video of it.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8177529.stm
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