Roman city 2,000 years under construction site

Historians find traces of an ancient Roman city dating back 2,000 years under a construction site in southern France.

The team unearthed the discovery of the ruins of the city of Ucetia in Uzes, France, Sun on March 31 reported. Earlier, historians only knew the city existed through an inscription inscribed in Nimes, an important outpost of the Roman Empire located in France today.

Remains of ancient Roman city excavated by archaeologists.(Photo: Sun).

The Roman Empire began invading France in 121 BC and Julius Caesar completed the conquest in 51 BC. Researchers believe that the newly excavated city could have been around in the 1st century BC until the 7th century.

The archaeological team found huge mosaic paintings and traces of public works, providing the first evidence of the city in the past. The discovery consists of a large-scale picture, continuous geometric patterns and a large circle in the center surrounded by a deer, duck, owl and eagle. They also found a house with a large amount of terracotta jars.

The floor has a square pattern with dolphin patterns and a nearby room with a hypocaust oven. It is a central heating system inside a production facility and circulates hot air underneath the floor of the room, while warming the walls through a series of gas pipes.

Experts will excavate and analyze the patterns before the boarding school is built above the area in 2019.