The Roman Empire was one of the world’s first empires. Archaeologists yesterday discovered a precious object that sheds light on the Roman Empire. Fossils of an ancient Roman chariot with two wheels and two horses (known as cisium in Latin) were found in the area of Jankovac Dubrava, near the village of Stari Jankovi, near the town of Vinkovci in eastern Croatia. This discovery is of great value to archaeologists. Look at those photos.
Archaeologists from the Vinkovici Municipal Museum and the Zagreb Department of the Institute of Archeology discovered an ancient Roman chariot (known as cisium in Latin) with two wheels and two horses at a site in the Jankovac Dubrava area near the village of Stari Jankovi. near the eastern town of Vinkovci.
A large burial chamber was discovered for an “extremely wealthy family.” In it was a two-horse cart. This discovery may be an example of the fact that people with great wealth were sometimes buried with their horses.
Project curator Boris Kratofil told media that tumuli (an ancient cemetery under a hill) were common post-mortem burials in the southern part of the Pannoinan region during the Roman period.
Boris Kratoff observes that “the practice was associated with extremely wealthy families who played an important role in the administrative, social and economic life of Pannoinan province.” This discovery is believed to date back to the 3rd century AD.
Experiments are being carried out to determine the actual age of the fossil through carbon testing. The director of the Institute of Archeology, Marko Disdar, stated that this is a unique discovery in Croatia.
In a few years we will know more about the family who was buried in this area 1,800 years ago. “We are more interested in the horses, whether they were bred here or came from other parts of the Roman Empire, and that tells us more about the political importance and wealth of this family,” Marco Disdar said.
Roman Empire in Croatia: The first inhabitants of Croatia were the Illyrians, an Indo-European people who are believed to have moved to the region around 1000 BC. They were attacked by the Celts in the 4th century BC. Then the Illyrians moved to Albania.
In 168 BC C., the Romans conquered the last Illyrian king, Xenarius, and took over the region. The Roman province of Illicicum was conquered by the Romans through wars.
Illycarium was renamed Dalmatia (comprising much of modern-day Croatia) by the Romans, who seized much of the Dalmatian coast. They were able to extend their empire in the area below the Danube until approximately the year 11 BC.
The Romans ruled Dalmatia for almost five hundred years. They built trade roads along the Danube River to link the Aegean and Black Seas and used Sol as their capital.
Other cities of importance to the Romans in Croatia were Jadera (Sadar), Parentium, Polancium (Pula) and Spalato (Split). When the Roman Empire began to crumble in the late 3rd century AD, the region split in two.
Dalmatia Salonitana and Dalmatia Pravalitana (whose capital is now part of present-day Albania). In 395 AD, the empire divided into the Eastern and Western Roman Empires. Present-day Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina in the west, Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia in the east, later became part of the Byzantine Empire.
The Roman Empire began after the founding of the Roman Republic in the 6th century BC. He ruled for a thousand years until the fall of the last Western emperor in 476 AD.
During this time, the Romans ruled many countries in Europe and parts of Africa and the Middle East. 90 million people lived in the Roman Empire. It evolved from a monarchy to a democratic republic and a military dictatorship, then ruled by autocratic emperors.
