An archaeologist in Corinth, Greece, has identified the remains of a Roman prison — one of the few prisons identified from the Roman world.
Historical records indicate that "prisons must have existed in almost every Roman town, at least those that had a forum," Matthew Larsen, an archaeologist and associate professor of New Testament at the University of Copenhagen, wrote in the journal Hesperia. "Yet the archaeological remains of prisons have proven exceedingly hard to identify. There is scant evidence of what a Roman prison would have looked like, or where it would have been located."
