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Archeologists find "mini-Coliseum" at Portus

by marc pijps | October 15, 2009 at 10:35 am

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Archaeologists found a miniature Roman Coliseum, as well as an amphitheatre and warehouse at an ancient Mediterranean port.

"Portus" was imperial Rome's main port, as the name may suggest, so the archeology team is thinking this to be the beginning of an even bigger find.

"It's true I think also to say that we have kind of rediscovered it because the great Italian archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani reported the discovery of a theater in the 1860s but nobody could actually find it," says Professor Simon Keay, a leading expert on Roman Archaeology at the University of Southhampton.