From the Telegraph: Two thousand year-old remains of Emperor Vespasian’s house discovered.
A team of British and Italian archaeologists have discovered the remains of a lavish villa belonging to the emperor Vespasian, exactly 2,000 years after his birth.
The archaeologists have unearthed reception rooms, colonnades, mosaic floors and traces of a hot bath complex at a site in mountainous countryside near the town of Rieti, north of Rome.
The villa is close to the ancient Roman village of Falacrinae, where Vespasian was born in AD 9. [continue]
Just a country boy at heart. And every person who has spent time roughing it, especially in the military, appreciates the chance to luxuriate in hot water and eat decent food and sleep on something softer than gravel. Vespasian, as I understand him, was a very down-to-earth person, even as emperor. But maybe the history books are just a bit embroidered.