Lost Treasures of Rome - Season 1 - Eps 2: Rome's Sunken Secrets
How did Rome rise to dominate so much of the ancient world? Off the coast of Sicily, investigators discover traces of a crucial naval battle. Using divers, an underwater robot and a crane, they haul a long lost battleship relic to the surface. In Terracina, south of Rome, a team of archaeologists dig inside an ancient mountaintop temple, and in Carthage, Tunisia, clues reveal how one deadly rivalry tilted the scales of power in favour of Rome.
About Lost Treasures of Rome
Title: Lost Treasures of Rome
First Air Date: 2022-05-27
Last Air Date: 2024-09-19
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 5.5/10 (from 4 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 12
Network: Channel 4
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Windfall Films
Synopsis
This new series follows International teams of archaeologists on the front line, as they embark on a season of excavations to unravel the secrets of life in the Roman Empire. Crawling beneath Pompeii, unearthing an enormous lost coliseum, and hauling a 2000 year old battleship ram from the depths of the ocean, they race to unlock the secrets of this ancient civilization.
