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Ancient Roman brickworks uncoveredThe factory is so well preserved it could work again (ANSA) - Cesena, December 5 - An Ancient Roman brickworks in near perfect condition has been discovered in Emilia Romagna . The complex, the largest anywhere in the region and one of the biggest in Italy, was unearthed near a canal in the central Italian town of Ronta . "This is a truly extraordinary find," said a culture ministry spokesman. "It is so well preserved that with minimal restoration it would still work perfectly today." The site is of such importance that the consortium carrying out work...

Archaeologists stumble on brickworks of ancient Rome By Nick Pisa in Rome (Filed: 02/10/2005) Two thousand years ago its furnaces must have been working around the clock, turning out the bricks that built ancient Rome. Now archaeologists have discovered the site of the brickworks that provided Rome with its most famous monuments, including the Colosseum and the Pantheon. One of the inscribed bricks used to build the Colosseum in Rome It lay 50 miles north of Rome, near the village of Bomarzo and close to the Tiber - enabling the red bricks to be loaded onto boats and transported down...