The International Symposium entitled "Drobeta. Archaeology and History" was held on the 13th and the 14th of November 2014 in Turnu Severin, Romania. It was organized by the Iron Gates Regional Museum. The symposium included lectures and posters about archaeology and history of the Iron Gates region. Lectures were held within four sections: Prehistoric Archaeology, Archaeology and Ancient History, Medieval archaeology, history, modern and contemporary history and the Section of conservation and restauration of cultural patrimony. Around eighty coleagues from Romania, Slovenia and Serbia attended this gathering.
During the first symposium day, all of the lectures were held and all of the posters shown. During the second day, all of the participants went for a site visit along the route Strehaia - Broşteni - Baia de Aramă - Ponoarele - Turnu Severin.
Viminacium representatives, Milica Tapavički-Ilić and Jelena Anđelković Grašar, presented a poster about Viminacium and the OpenArch project. The poster drew attention of colleagues from the neighbouring regions, especially the cremation experiment and its results.