Birthdate of Italian city is revealed thanks to a 2000-year-old carving of two PENISES found on a Roman wall | Mail Online

Birthdate of Italian city is revealed thanks to a 2000-year-old carving of two PENISES found on a Roman wall | Mail Online:
Birthdate of Italian city is revealed thanks to a 2000-year-old carving of two penises found on a Roman wall

Archaeologists believe the 2,000-year-old phallic symbols could show a connection between Aosta and the Roman Emperor Augustus
It is thought the pair of penises relate to the god Priapus, while a spade and plough carved in the same stone denote the perimeter of the new city
Also a carving of Capricorn over one of the penises, which in Roman times signified the winter solstice - and was also the emblem of Augustus
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