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Excellent Ruins Unveiled
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Published: October 17, 2008
A dig north of Rome has turned up the tomb of a nobleman who led Rome's legions in the second century A.D.
The mausoleum was covered in mud during a flood of the river Tiber, which collapsed most of the monument but helped preserve exquisite decorations, marble columns and inscriptions from plunderers and decay.
Writings there led experts to identify the site as the tomb of Marcus Nonius Macrinus, one of the closest aides and generals of Emperor Marcus Aurelius during his campaigns against Germanic tribes in Northern Europe.
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