The city of Rome shrinks underground

A tunnel of about 2,000 years old has been discovered by cave researchers deep underground in Rome to help us understand more about the history of this great culture. Located right next to the city's modern sewer line, people have been unaware that they are destroying a precious site by releasing waste. And now, scientists have voiced.

The urban cave researcher is working next to a hill of Rome with stone carvings dating back over 2,000 years.This is an " asset " that few people have seen since the city was buried underground (Photo: Nationalgeographic).

Treasure of Rome

Luca Antognoli, 49, is working in Rome Sotterranea, a group of scientists specializing in cave research, which has brought to light a series of buried temples, streets, houses and sewers. since the Roman Empire collapsed. In the old tradition, the sewers (also known as Cloaca Maxima) are always built underground under the Roman Forum, built in the 6th century BC, which is one of the oldest buildings. exists so far.

Luca spent a lot of time wandering and immersing herself in the dirty water of the sewer to study.(Photo: Nationalgeographic)

Luca spent a lot of time wandering and immersing herself in the dirty water of the sewer to study. Beneath that dirty water is a treasure of human civilization with marvels made 2,000 years ago. However, with difficulties and dangers to the health of researchers, Roma Sotterranea is planning to send a remote control robot to the sewer to discover the secret inside, because according to this Luke's may extend as far as Diocletian Bath, nearly a mile northeast. Recently, scientists have found the giant head of Emperor Constantine from such a sewer that the first Catholic emperor was a victim of a custom of ancient Rome. old.

According to the archaeologist Luca Cave, underground areas like Cloaca Maxima will prove how the city of Rome was born and existed to rule an empire stretching from Scotland to Baghdad, creating so a period of history has the greatest influence in the West.

The skulls of the Capuchin monks who died five centuries ago, were discovered under the church of Santa Maria della Concezione (Photo: stuardtclarkesrome)

Back in history

"Rome has existed for about 3,000 years," said Darius Arya, an archaeologist and director of the American Cultural Institute. The city was built on a flood-prone location, even in the center (ancient times called Campus Martius), located on the banks of the Tiber River. Although the authorities at that time had taken many measures to prevent flooding, the city still could not avoid the consequences of nature, so people gradually improved their houses, leaving architectural works. and the street lies underground. "It was a persistent and effective process. We found that the Romans raised the city by 2 meters at the time, helping them avoid the water attack, but buried what they created. out earlier, "added the scientist.

With a 3,000-year-old history, the city of Rome has flourished today because it was built on a city.Many historical sites are still deep in the undiscovered ground.

In the 1800s, the Roman Forum was built and existed until today under a modern city. From 1920 to 1930, many archaeologists were interested in these works, but still did not have satisfactory results due to limitations in research technology. An archaeologist Cristiano Ranieri's hypothesis is that this sewer is also the way to bring prisoners and beasts into the Colosseum arena above.

Ranieri's research shows that how ancient Romans were skillful when turning this bloody game into a kind of outdoor theater that was carefully staged with very complex mechanical systems. Colosseum consists of 48 elevators that connect the ground to the arena surface. After the beast was driven into the crib underground, people used a winch to pull a crib to the height close to the arena. When the signal is emitted, the hatch opens and the beast jumps out of the arena. With this mechanical system, the organizers of the Colosseum games can in the blink of an eye throw a pack of tigers to the arena, as if they are falling from the sky. Mobile floor surfaces can also instantly bring the stage scene to the arena to quickly change the scene to suit each match.

Early buildings, including the temple of Mithras, were surrounded by a house where Christians gathered in the 4th century and then a church.After the time of the Norman occupation of Rome in 1084, this cathedral became a palace like it is today.

Later excavations of a 19th-century theater shed light on the hypogeneic structure - a complex of rooms, elevators, underground tunnels, which brought soldiers and beasts to the arena. on.

The ancient steps are illuminated by modern lights that lead to Aqua Virgo, which provides drinking water and other necessities to Rome.

Forum Nerva, a 2,000-year-old sewer is still in use today.This is considered a " great sewer " because it keeps history.

DI ZONE IS ONLY ROME STOCK

1. Colosseum
2. Domus Aurea (below Trajan Bath)
3 .Ludus Magnus
4. Warehouse (later into San Clemente area)
5. The Senate (later to become a joint cathedral of Joint and Paul)
6. Circus Maximus Mithraeum
7. Zone of Forum Holitorium
8. Domus Tiberiana
9. Temple of Vernus and Rome

Tran Ngoc Phuc