Rhône. “We didn’t expect it at all”: two exceptional ancient remains discovered in Saint-Romain-en-Gal

No Indiana Jones hat or whip in sight. But archaeology students are hard at work this Thursday morning, cautiously digging with pickaxes or painstakingly attempting to unearth the traces that history has left behind.

At almost the same time, Martine Publié, vice-president of the Rhône Department in charge of culture and tourism, and Émilie Alonso, director of the museum and Gallo-Roman sites of Saint-Romain-en-Gal (read elsewhere), did not hide their satisfaction. They were surrounded by Giulia Ciucci and Benjamin Clément, the archaeologists responsible for the two research areas, at the time of the announcement: the summer excavations had been fruitful.

It is first of all a circular mausoleum of exceptional size (15 meters...

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