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Traces of Submerged Roman Road Found Beneath Venetian Lagoon | Smart News
The road appears to have run along a sandy ridge between the northern and southern ends of the lagoon. Rendering by Antonio Calandriello and Giuseppe D’Acunto / Photo by Fantina Madricardo Researchers in Italy have found the remains of a Roman road and dock at the bottom of a Venetian lagoon. “We believe that what we found is a part of a road that connected the southern and the northern part of the Venice lagoon,” Fantina Madricardo, a geophysicist at the ISMAR-Marine Science Institute in Venice, tells the Art Newspaper’s Garry Shaw. The pathway would have allowed people to travel to and from the ancient Roman city of Altinum, located…