{"id":846,"date":"2024-04-12T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T10:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2024-04-12T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T10:59:08","slug":"ancient-roman-mosaic-floor-discovered-beneath-an-italian-vineyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Roman mosaic floor discovered beneath an Italian vineyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Italian neghborhood Negrar di Valpolicella, located near Verona, at the northeast of the country, has been hiding a secret, and archaeologists were finally able to discover it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was in fact a part of a previous discovery of a building, and although archaeologists knew it existed, they spent decades looking for it without success<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2134\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The mosaic floor is believed to be built back in the 3rd century AD, and professionals are currently working on finding a way to excavate it without damaging it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mosaic3_resize_md.700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2135\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The country is now considering making this mosaic available and open for the public in agreement with the owner of the land under which it had been discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201cThe result will not come soon and significant resources will be needed. But it\u2019s important, finally, to track the road.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/00.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2136\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The excavation work on the Roman Villa started some 30 years ago and then stopped before it continued last summer by a team from the Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Verona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, because of the pandemic, the work was forced to be delayed until recently when this mosaic was found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When archaeologist Myko Clelland tweeted about it and posted photos, his post had gone viral almost overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/25OBOX1.700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2137\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>God knows what other marvelous objects that witness of the life of people inhabiting this world long before we came to it the Earth is hiding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please SHARE this story with your family and friends on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian neghborhood Negrar di Valpolicella, located near Verona, at the northeast of the country, has been hiding a secret, and archaeologists were finally able to discover&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}