A 1800 - year - old tombstone (Video) is discovered in the Harachine

While working in Harachina's sewer, workers found a tombstone with Roman inscriptions, said to be 1800 years old.

The “Day was working here for the sewer. They were scraping a company here. As they were corroding, they encountered a stone”, said Irfan Faik, resident of Harachina.

Workers immediately notified municipal authorities, while police had later been notified.

Archaeologist Lenka Jovanovka also came to the scene from the archaeological museum Skopje.

She said it was a tomb inscription.

According to her, this epigraph of writing is in Latin and is referred to as a Roman woman named Guyvaleria Claudia.

Yovanovka added that this is not a random and lonely discovery in this region, since history, as it says, this territory once belonged to the Roman city of Scupi.

The archaeologist said that the tomb tablet is of the second century C.E. and that it is 1800 years old.

Otherwise, the village of Harachine as the entire low plain of Skopje, in a territorial-administratorial way, has met the wider territory of the Roman town of Skupi, the Flavius Scupi Skkominorum colony, whose centre has been near the village of Zlokobla. It's about a tomb plaque dedicated to a woman named Gaya Valeria Claudia, who was probably set up by her husband”, said Lenka Yovanovka, an archaeologist.

Harachina residents said this is not the first time since they have found stones with historical inscriptions before.

“According to eyewitnesses indicate there is still one. Now I can't confirm it. But let's see now, they know their parameters according to competent organs. And they'll see if they're going to continue digging”, Fiday Belul said.

After the stone was removed from the canal, at the request of the archaeologist it was sent to the Scupi Museum, where other ancient tablets are located.