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The Boscoreale Treasure is a large collection of exquisite silver and gold Roman objects discovered in the ruins of the ancient Villa della Pisanella at Boscoreale, near Pompeii, southern Italy. Consisting of over a hundred pieces of silverware , as well as gold coins and jewellery, it is now mostly kept at the Louvre Museum in Paris, although ...
Juba II also gathered an impressive collection of artworks, particularly marble sculptures, some of which have landed up in museums in other parts of the world, but excellent examples are to be found in Cherchell Museum, along with a sculpture of the head of his wife, Cleopatra Selene II.
Alfred Percival Maudslay, interior of southern chamber, Casa de Monjas at Chichen Itza, 1889 Quiriguá, 1883 Brooklyn Museum Copan. Stela H., 1885 Brooklyn Museum. Alfred Percival Maudslay (18 March 1850 – 22 January 1931) was a British colonial administrator and archaeologist.
Also found among the Roman coins were 72 gold aurei, dated from 18 B.C. to 47 A.D. Those coins show no signs of wear and likely came from a pile of freshly minted coins, according to the Cultural ...
Archaeologists found ruins of the wine presses, storage cellars and other production buildings. 1,900-year-old winery — that made drinks for ancient Romans — found in France. See it
Ruins of the Roman Temple of Hercules on Citadel Hill. The museum is located in the Amman Citadel in Amman, one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world.Two historic sites are nearby on top of the hill, the Roman Temple of Hercules that dates back to the 2nd century, and an Umayyad palace that dates back to the 8th century.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating reports of alleged engine failures in GM's 6.2-liter L87 V-8, an engine used in a wide variety of trucks and SUVs.
A pencil sketch of the ruins of 1831 by William Alfred Delamotte, formerly in a collection of drawings of the Frogmore Estate put together by Elizabeth, was returned to the Royal Collection in 1984. [6] In 1840, Frogmore was inherited by the Duchess of Kent and, following her death in 1861, by her daughter, Queen Victoria. [2]