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Ruins Revived At Aquileia


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Italian archaeologists are working hard to unearth more of the largest Roman city ever uncovered, a colony that served as a bulwark against barbarian invasions before being destroyed by Attila the Hun .

 

Aquileia in today's far north east, once the third-biggest city in Roman Italy, had been largely wiped off the map by foreign attacks and centuries of stone looting. But some of its ancient splendour remained in traces of its baths, temples, port, public buildings and private dwellings..

 

via Ansa.it

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The place where Magnus Maximus (the Macsen Wledig of celtic myth) met his end in 388.

 

Phil

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