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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6513767/Caesar-rises-several-millennias-artefacts-from-the-bed-of-the-Rhone.html
"And then they brought up the most extraordinary buried treasure of
all: a bust of Julius Caesar.
The find, dated 46 BC, is all the more remarkable because it is likely
to have been made during the emperor's lifetime. It is the centrepiece
for the exhibition organised by Luc Long, head of the French state
department for archaeological, subaquatic and deep sea research."
"Alongside Caesar is the 1.8-metre (six-foot) marble statue of the god
Neptune dating from the beginning of the third century AD, and a
bronze satyr with its hands tied behind its back."
"The divers also brought up remains of 15 shipwrecks, iron or lead
ingots, rings, tools, shoe leather, small figurines and ceramics -
vivid reminders of ancient Arles as a port receiving boatloads of
goods from Gaul, Europe, the Orient, Africa."
David Christainsen |
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