An ancient marble bust has been found at the bottom of Italy’s Lake Nemi. Archeologists suggest the object may have once lived on a ship built by the Roman Emperor Caligula two millennia ago.

View A VIEW OF LAKE NEMI WITH A PIPING SHEPHERD AND A WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH A DEER AND TWO FIGURES CONVERSING BEFORE A DISTANT TOWN: A PAIR OF PAINTINGS By Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes; oil on paper; ...

One of Caligula's ships, recovered from Lake Nemi in 1928. Photo: Museo della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci Neither the fall of a Roman emperor nor World War Two could destroy it. But ...

Near the little woodland lake of Nemi. 20 miles from a Rome as yet unborn. Rome's Father Aeneas, at the Sibyl's bidding, plucked a branch from a tree in the Sacred Grove before he essayed ...

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In a plot worthy of Indiana Jones (or maybe Angelina Jolie in a B-movie), Italian police have apprehended a man attempting to smuggle a suspicious sculpture out of Lake Nemi in the south of Rome.

A stone head was found in Lake Nemi in Italy by municipal workers trying to clean the lakebed, according to media reports from June 26. Experts believe that the head may have fallen from one of ...

06/28/2023 June 28, 2023. Routine dredging of a volcanic lake near Rome has turned up a spectacular archeological find: A marble head that may be from one of Emperor Caligula's 1st century AD ships.

Caligula's massive, ornate ships on Italy's Lake Nemi were rumored to be the sites of wild orgies and other excessive indulgences in ancient Roman times.

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