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Dozens of beautifully preserved, 2,000-year-old bronze statues were found in what ... the Etruscan civilization to the expansion of the Roman Empire, a period marked by war and conflict across ...
and yet the bronze statues show evidence that Etruscan and Roman families prayed together to deities in the sacred sanctuary of the thermal springs. The statues, including depictions of Apollo and ...
These turned out to be “follis”—Roman bronze or copper coins also later used as Byzantine currency. Based on their weight, the total number of coins in the find is estimated to be between ...
A trove of bronze statues that archeologists say could rewrite the history of Italy's transition to the Roman Empire have been discovered in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring. Italy's Ministry of ...
Two ancient Roman bronze dodecahedrons and an icosahedron (3rd c. AD) in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany. (Credit: Kleon3, Wikimedia) As the Norton Disney History and Archaeology ...
The Cleveland Museum of Art is facing this question following the seizure of one of its prized Roman antiquities. The work in question is a spectacular, life-sized, headless bronze statue of a man ...