‘Really incredible’ … the site of the second-century library discovered inward Cologne. Photograph: Hi-flyFoto/Roman-Germanic Museum of Cologne
The remains of the oldest populace library inward Germany, a edifice erected most 2 millennia agone that may convey housed upwardly to 20,000 scrolls, convey been discovered inward the middle of Cologne.
The walls were commencement uncovered inward 2017, during an earthworks on the grounds of a Protestant church building inward the centre of the city. Archaeologists knew they were of Roman origins, alongside Cologne beingness i of Germany’s oldest cities, founded past times the Romans inward fifty AD nether the elevate Colonia. But the uncovering of niches inward the walls, mensuration around 80cm past times 50cm, was, initially, mystifying.
“It took us some fourth dimension to check upwardly the parallels – nosotros could run across the niches were likewise pocket-size to deport statues inside. But what they are are sort of cupboards for the scrolls,” said Dr Dirk Schmitz from the Roman-Germanic Museum of Cologne. “They are real item to libraries – you lot tin plow over the axe run across the same ones inward the library at Ephesus.”
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