Excavation site outside of Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Rome, Italy© Ministero della Cultura© Ministero della Cultura
Posted on 07/29/2024 10:14:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a Reuters report, a structure thought to have been a medieval palace has been uncovered in the square outside the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, which serves as the seat of the pope as the bishop of Rome. The site includes walls thought to have surrounded the Patriarchio, a monumental basilica built after Emperor Constantine's declaration of tolerance for the Christian religion within the Roman Empire in A.D. 313. The structure was expanded between the ninth and thirteenth centuries to house the church's popes, who moved to Avignon, France, in the early fourteenth century. The papal court returned to Rome in 1377.
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Excavation site outside of Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Rome, Italy© Ministero della Cultura© Ministero della Cultura
All of these topics from today are coming out of the buffer files I saved for each one, hence, pretty much alpha order. I'm going to go outdoors for a while.
More than anything else, I wish I had been an archeologist.
My brother volunteers to work on archeological digs like this. He has a double history degree but I think anyone can volunteer. Might make for an interesting vacation.
I’ve ‘excavated’ a few stone-age sites on my property.
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