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Deep beneath the elaborate mosaic floor of Venice’s , archaeologists have discovered two 1300-year-old peach stones. The find may add 180 years to the history of the iconic floating city.
Most of Italy’s great cities date back to the Romans, but Venice is an exception, says at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. Although there was a Roman presence on Torcello island in the north of the Venetian lagoon, there are no Roman remains in Venice.
Instead, the history of Venice seems to begin in the 9th…
