standing and this is forty cows and it's the st finish in settlement in north africa but the roman town was founded here for let's say the beginning of the nd century d that long ago and it still stands with these beautiful tiles absolutely so it was all covered and we needed to excavate to find these treasures let's say and what was it covered with was it covered with sand and but this is typical really of a lot of ruins that you discovered within the country that have to be really don't know what's underneath the earth here you don't know you know the period yes it's role in this is finishing this is byzantine but you need to excavate to find to understand what's there it's public or private money meant right but how do you define what's roman and what's venetian i mean what defines it actually st of all it's easy to distinguish between finnish and roman different cultures here st and then it's destroyed and then all covered and then the romans a roman period new town was always founded on the finishing one i see this is number one  period is actually what we call the b c majority so starting with the foundation of this town where we are all these towns where either destroyed during the wars by the romans especially the three tunic wars or all those were destroyed later or abandoned by the finnish and and new towns roman period of course were founded on the ruins of the finnish and once so always you find the finnish and and the roman level lower than the roman town right because they were there st the real the rest what i love is the fact that it's still an incredible condition you think about that period that the historic period that it comes from that you can still identify it and there's so much of it and you're still discovering it no matter where you go in the country there's always you know a roman of a nation there's something going on and it's like the energy of the country with time these towns were abundant of course and people moved to other naturally all thanks to the nature of course it was preserved to us and we found a very large and beautiful collection of roman mosaics in these two houses the this side where we are now is just two houses the whole town this is discovered unbelievable by four had preserved especially with the temperature as you know as hard as it is or humid as it is and you know i think of everything i think that's really amazing to me it's not only that in these houses the in this side of the town of course of many families so the walls were covered with marble too so the floor with the right and the wall with marble inside outside was it's just amazing and the size of the stones i mean just him and the thickness of the walls you know  sound proofing it's not like today where the you can punch through the walls here you have this incredible structure that to me i'm just fascinated by the history of this country antony's here is an incredible place where people can come and learn about the civilization of the world and i think that's so fantastic it's true and many people forget that it was close to the sea now which is about eight miles from seaside but there was a  problem too that's why the walls are thick and they were covered inside and outside how did they do they fill in the land is that what you're saying and you said that this was a harbor at one point at one point yes it was a harbor but it was naturally covered of course it took feelin like people do feelings now days like you know another interesting thing that you're going to show us how they use their water and from their wells and that's the atmosphere is because we find we are in this i mean this house is called the and it is not the course the spring itself is not here spring is about two miles far from here so there is a pipe and all these houses all these real winds that brought the water to this house i want to have that experience of the well i want to really discover floor that people walked it's a number much the same but that's the similar let's say to the wheat symbol of this town we have two symbols of wheat and the top and these to say well here are the square once so it's like the t that covered the floors of private houses the floors of temples and public monuments became very important documents for us to know the details of life of the leaves of traditions of clothes and there was a moment when i turned around and a one thousand horses appeared behind me i thought oh my god what a beautiful scene