A settlement of Roman emigrants from Dalmatia, fleeing the Germanic tribes, was discovered in Croatia by archaeologists from the Institute of Archeology of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (UKSW) in Warsaw, who worked under the supervision of Dr Fabian Welc.

Last season of research brought a unique Roman villa complex (villa rustica), which was located thanks to GPR research in the Podsilo bay in the north of the island of Rab.

It turned out that the complex had many periods of use, from the early Roman to the Byzantine period, when the wooden construction was erected in the remains of a dilapidated villa.

Thanks to this year’s radar scans made in the western part of the studied bay, scientists also discovered a monumental building, lined with mosaics, evidenced by the numerous tessers – cubes forming mosaic floor tiles on the ground.

The research was carried out for several years under the project “Archaeological Topography of the Rab island island” in Croatia. It is financed by the National Science Center.