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Archaeologists Found a 1,600-Year-Old Roman Artifact With Shockingly Intact Details

created: June 17, 2025, noon | updated: June 21, 2025, 3:36 p.m.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Archaeologists in Montenegro discovered the tomb of a Roman woman from over 1,600 years ago. Inside the necropolis, the team found a bounty of grave goods, including an ornate glass vessel called a diatreta. None, though, more ornate than a glass diatreta vessel decorated with a scene of a gladiator doing battle with dangerous animals. The archaeologists discovered the diatreta in a fourth-century A.D. tomb of an elite Roman woman. The recently discovered tomb was notable for the exquisite grave goods the team also discovered.

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