Archaeologists on Wednesday said they had found the remains of a Roman village and baths near the government offices in the former West German capital Bonn.
The site is a "sort of single street village," roughly the size of two football fields, that was home to about 2,000 people and was built more than 2,000 years ago, archaeologist Nora Andrikopoulo-Strack said.
It lies close to the former German chancellery and archaeologists have found the remains of a "vicus," the Latin word for a path, that linked the village to others in nearby Cologne and Koblenz.
The team of 50 archaeologists who have been digging on the site since May have found four horse skeletons, a comb made out of bone and a cup with an erotic carving.
The excavation is financed by South Korean investor SMI Hyundai to the tune of 1.6 million euros ($2 million).
It is planning to build a new hotel and congress center on the site and the archaeological work must be completed before construction begins at the end of October.
