November
18
/ 2020
An ancient stone monument with a Roman inscription is revealing the truth about the corrupt politics of Imperial Rome. The find was discovered near a ruined Roman city in Bulgaria. The Roman inscription reveals a bribe paid to an emperor and a ‘political lie.’ This find is helping researchers to better understand Roman history at a crucial period just before the 3 rd century AD crisis that almost brought the empire crashing down. In the 1920s, archaeologists found a 3 meter-tall (9.8 feet) stone stele. The monument came from the ancient Roman city of Nicopolis ad Istrum, which is 18 km northwest of Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria. The stele was shattered into four pieces. Whole, it had a 37-line
