2,000-Year-Old Roman Stone Building Discovered Sticking out of Ground Near Alps in Switzerland

2,000-Year-Old Roman Stone Building Discovered Sticking out of Ground Near Alps in Switzerland
© ADA Zug, David Jecker, Res Eichenberger
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The ancient Romans once breathed the Alpine air and enjoyed the same craggy panorama that makes Lake Zug in Switzerland famous today—so tells us a sprawling complex of Roman brickwork, jutting just above the ground at the foot of the Alps.

Recently, near the Swiss town of Cham-Oberwil in the canton of Zug, for the first time in nearly 100 years, researchers have unearthed masonry structures dating to Roman times.

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