Resumen de Venice gains years of history
Deep beneath the mosaic floor of Venice's St Mark's Basilica, archaeologists have found two 1300-year-old peach stones. They add at least 100 years to the city's history. Most of Italy's great cities date back to the Romans, but not Venice, says Albert Ammerman at Colgate University in Hamilton NY. There were Romans on Torcello island in the north of the Venetian lagoon, but there are no Roman remains in Venice. Instead, the city's history seems to begin in the 9th century.
