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Archaeologists have found a Roman British port near the fortress of Caerleon, just north of Newport, south Wales – the only known such port outside London.
This animated reconstruction shows how the fortress – constructed in AD74-75 – would have looked.
Soldiers would have arrived in numbers at the port, the furthest flung of all Roman outposts, from the Mediterranean to aid in the fight against fearsome and warlike Welsh tribes
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Archaeologists say they have located and excavated the ruins of a huge amphitheatre used to train gladiators east of Vienna, describing it as a “sensational discovery”.
They claim that the ruins found through ground radar measurements rival the Colosseum and the Ludus Magnus in Rome in their structure. The Ludus Magnus is the largest of the gladiatorial arenas in the Italian capital, while the Colosseum is the largest amphitheatre ever built in the Roman empire.
A statement on Tuesday from the Carnuntum archaeological park gave no details about when the find was located and excavated.
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wonder if they found any old coins that may have dropped out of the loin sack of a drunken gladiator or an on looker .