History of Rome in the Blue Tales at the Castle of Santa Severa

Within the “Blue Summer” festival at the Castle of Santa Severa, at the Sea and Navigation City Museum we recommend an interesting event for all history and archeology passionates, with the title "Rome, untold discoveries".

The reading will we presented Sunday August 14 (at 9 pm) by journalist Laura Larcan. It is part of the so-called Blue Tales, special events with the authors focused on travel and sea matters.

Laura Larcan, journalist at Messaggero, has been promoting for years the Italian Cultural Heritage, especially projects centered in promoting the territory and archeological research.

“Rome is a city that still today can surprise us. Even the most ordinary operation, like changing the rails of the tramway can turn into an archeological adventure. No wisecrack, totally true. Like that time - winter 2012 - when at Piazzale Ostiense, a stone's throw away from the Pyramid of Cestius, at the construction site of the new tramway line 3, came to light a necropolis with at lest twenty tombs.

It was only necessary to take some rails away and dig just about 60 centimeters. The most interesting fact of this discovery was that each tomb contained a perfectly complete scheleton.

Most of the skulls showed well preserved teeth, a strategic fact that allowed archeologist to know that the dead where aged 13 to 18. So, under those tracks was a two-thousand year-old cemetery of young remains.

The tombs were simple, covered by amphora potsherd, only some coins to pay Caront for the extrem trip of the dead. They were poor, maybe slaves, maybe Christian, since there was a small sarcophagus found among the graves that was decorated with scenes of shepherds tending to a herd of sheeps."

But the Blu Summer at the Castle of Santa Severa doesn't end here! To learn more about the meetings and events at the museum, please refer to the official site.

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