‘Mini Pompeii’ Preserved by Fire Discovered Beneath Italian Movie Theater

In the basement of an Italian movie theater in Verona that has been vacant for 20 years, a construction team recently discovered the remains of what may have been an ancient Roman hotel. The Superintendency of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Verona, Rovigo, and Vicenza announced the findings beneath the city’s abandoned Astra cinema at a press conference last week.
The ancient structure is believed to date back to the 2nd century C.E. It may have caught fire, causing its roof to col