2,000-year-old bronze statues discovered in ancient Italian thermal spring

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Moving over to Italy,... where archaeologists announced on Tuesday,... the discovery of 24 ancient bronze statues.
The figures were found at a dig site in the sacred baths of the San Casciano dei Bagni near Siena.
The statues were well-preserved by layers of mud, and were found alongside smaller bronze statuettes and almost 6-thousand coins.
Dating back over 2-thousand years, past 100 B.C.,... the sensational find could help historians piece together how the Tuscany region became part of the Roman Empire.
The find is the most significant in Italy since 1972, when the famed Riace Greek bronze warriors were discovered undersea.

#ancient_bronze_statues #San_Casciano_dei_Bagni #Arirang_News

2022-11-09, 09:00 (KST)

[noahway]

00:27 Ok. I feel a little better about myself.

[BuriedFlame]

_"They're _*_action figures_*_, Mom!"_

[circleofstone]

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[alessiorenzoni]

🇮🇹💪🏻In San Casciano dei Bagni the largest deposit of bronze statues from the Roman and Etruscan ages was unearthed (google translate)

An exceptional discovery, the one made in San Casciano dei Bagni, in the province of Siena, for the sixth excavation campaign carried out at the Sanctuary Ritrovato: the largest deposit of bronze statues from the Roman and Etruscan ages of ancient Italy and one of the most significant of the Mediterranee. In fourteen weeks of research, from July until a few days ago, in fact, 24 large works were brought to light, statues in perfect condition, as well as hundreds of smaller works and about six thousand gold, silver and bronze coins. All in the mud and warm waters of the sanctuary's central basin.


"The bronzes of San Casciano - reports a note from the Ministry of Culture - depict the deities venerated in the sacred place, together with the organs and anatomical parts for which the curative intervention of the divinity was requested through the thermal waters". The state of conservation of the statues in the hot water of the spring has also made it possible to preserve wonderful inscriptions in Etruscan and Latin which were engraved before their realization.

Most of these masterpieces of antiquity date back to the second century BC. and the 1st century AD, a historical period of important transformations in ancient Tuscany, in the passage between the Etruscans and the Romans.

"A discovery that will rewrite history and on which over 60 experts from all over the world are already at work - declares the Etruscologist in charge of the excavation and professor at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Jacopo Tabolli - Fifty years after the discovery of the famous Bronzes di Riace, the history of the ancient bronze statuary of the Etruscan and Roman age is rewritten in San Casciano dei Bagni ”.

Proud also the general director of the State museums, Massimo Osanna, who has just approved the purchase of the sixteenth-century palace that will house the wonders returned by the Bagno Grande in the village of San Casciano, a museum to which a real park will be added in the future. archaeological.

For the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, it is "an exceptional find, which confirms once more that Italy is a country of immense and unique treasures". Yesterday the owner of the MiC was in Grosseto at the laboratory of the Central Institute of Restoration, where the study activities and the first interventions on the bronzes are underway: "I personally wanted to congratulate the archaeologists and the research team - he said the minister - The study and enhancement of this treasure will be a further opportunity for the spiritual growth of our culture and for the revitalization of territories less known to international tourism ".

[andrenewcomb]

Probably about beauty. Place them in the warm waters and look into "water" and SEE images . . . and toss in coins for 'love'.

[tsuunited]

Taking items of sacrifice will release the volcano. Put them back, the gods are angry