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 ...

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Once part of the dance floor on one of Roman Emperor Caligula’s pleasure ships, the marble masterpiece was recovered from the depths of Lake Nemi in the 1930s, only to vanish the following decade.

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) ...

Other attractions to visit while in Nemi are the Sanctuary of the Holy Crucifix, a chapel built in 1637, where sweeping lake views can be seen from the lovely terrace garden.