{"id":295765,"date":"2010-02-08T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"1802 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-02-08T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:40:12","slug":"the-museum-of-roman-ships-at-fiumicino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295765","title":{"rendered":"The Museum of Roman Ships at Fiumicino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/europe\/italy\/latium\/rome\">Rome<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/europe\/italy\">Italy<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/architectural-oddities\/incredible-ruins\">Incredible Ruins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An accidental discovery delivered this unique collection. <\/p>\n<p>In the early 50s when the Italian government began excavating for a new airport, they stumbled upon an ancient port built by Emperor Claudius in 46 C.E. An archeologist&#8217;s dream: they found boats, entire hulls of Roman freighters and a fishing boat. These ships provide a precise glance into everyday life of ancient maritime Rome.<\/p>\n<p>These large vessels carried 1,500 tons of grain. After the fall of Rome, boats of that capacity were not built again until the late 1700s. <\/p>\n<p>Next to the Leonardo da Vinci Airport, the museum features the found pieces of the ships as well as other artifacts of sea-faring life, like amphorae, the containers used to move oils and grains from Alexandria in Eygpt to Rome. <\/p>\n<p>Roman fisherman kept their catch alive all the way back to port because their boats were designed with a central compartment with small holes to allow sea water in &#8211; an ancient aquarium. <\/p>\n<p>Note: on the first Saturday and last Sunday of each month, a special archeological tour is led of the whole port area. It leaves from the museum at 9:30 a.m. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/501f0007.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome, Italy | Incredible Ruins An accidental discovery delivered this unique collection. In the early 50s when the Italian government began excavating for a new airport, they stumbled upon an ancient port built by Emperor Claudius in 46 C.E. An archeologist&#8217;s dream: they found boats, entire hulls of Roman freighters and a fishing boat. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}