Archaeologists working at Aquileia, in the northern province of Friuli Venezia Guilia, have begun to uncover a sizable Bronze Age village that occupied the site before Roman times.
Aquilieia, which has a population today of about 3500, was once a bustling market town of 100,000 inhabitants and an important trading center. It’s also one of Italy’s UNESCO World Heritage sites.
The possibility of the settlement’s existence was suggested in radar scans from 1980, but excavation only began in 2013. The archaeology team told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera that their findings indicate a town of about 100,000 square meters, and that it was likely a key trading point, much like its Roman successor. It’s believed to have flourished between about 1500 to 1200 BC, or about a thousand years before its Roman successor.
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