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Masu binciken kayan tarihi na kasar Italiya sun gano wasu mutum-mutumin tagulla guda 24 da aka adana a Tuscany da aka yi imanin cewa tun zamanin d Romawa ne.

An gano mutum-mutumin ne a karkashin rugujewar laka na wani tsohon gidan wanka a San Casciano dei Bagni, wani gari mai tudu a lardin Siena, mai tazarar kilomita 160 daga arewacin babban birnin kasar Rome.

Ana kwatanta Hygieia, Apollo da sauran gumakan Greco-Roman, alkalumman an ce sun kai kusan shekaru 2,300.

Wani masani ya ce binciken zai iya "sake rubuta tarihi".

Yawancin mutum-mutumin - waɗanda aka samo suna nutsewa a ƙarƙashin ruwan wanka tare da kusan 6,000 tagulla, azurfa da tsabar zinare - kwanan wata tsakanin karni na 2 BC da karni na 1 AD. Zamanin ya nuna wani lokaci na "babban canji a tsohuwar Tuscany" yayin da yankin ya canza daga Etruscan zuwa mulkin Romawa, in ji ma'aikatar al'adun Italiya.

Jacopo Tabolli, mataimakin farfesa daga jami'ar 'yan kasashen waje da ke Siena da ke jagorantar aikin tono, ya ba da shawarar cewa an nutsar da mutum-mutumin a cikin ruwan zafi a wani nau'in al'ada. “Kuna ba da ruwan ne domin kuna fatan ruwan ya mayar muku da wani abu,” in ji shi.

Mutum-mutumin da ruwa ya adana, za a kai su dakin gwaje-gwajen maido da ke kusa da Grosseto, kafin daga bisani a baje su a wani sabon gidan kayan tarihi a San Casciano.

Massimo Osanna, babban darekta na gidajen tarihi na kasar Italiya, ya ce gano ya kasance mafi mahimmanci tun bayan Riace Bronzes kuma "tabbas daya daga cikin manyan abubuwan tagulla da aka samu a tarihin tsohon Bahar Rum". Riace Bronzes - wanda aka gano a cikin 1972 - ya nuna wasu tsoffin mayaka. An yi imanin cewa sun kasance a kusa da 460-450BC.