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NEMI, ITALY—For the last four years, Italian antiquity restorers have been trying to remove tea and coffee stains from a large 2,000-year-old mosaic tile that graced the floor of Emperor ...
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.
The antiquity was part of a ship that was submerged in Italy’s Lake Nemi during ancient times and was recovered in the 1930s. The mosaics that remained were held in a lakeside museum and, in ...
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 ...
View Lake Nemi, Italy by Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. and Thomas Girtin on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. and Thomas Girtin. Price Database ...
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 ...
Divers search lake for Roman Emperor Caligula's pleasure barge, site of wild orgies Published: Apr. 04, 2017, 10:58 p.m. After Nearly 2,000 Years - Sound Version (1931) ...
In the late 1920s, two ships belonging to the Roman emperor Caligula (which he used as floating party villas) were pulled from the waters of the nearby lake, also called Nemi, and are now housed ...