Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left, Artist impressions of Caligula's luxury Nemi ships — Liebig collectors' card, 1935. Right - Nemi ships built by Caligula, ...

Experts suggest the sculpture lived on one of two ornate ships the hedonistic emperor commissioned in the 1st century C.E. Emperor Caligula, 1st century. Found in the Collection of Museo Archeologico ...

Lake Nemi has long carried echoes of Roman religion and myth. Sacred to the goddess Diana Nemorensis, the lake was off-limits to sailing except for ceremonial use. This small volcanic basin, with just ...

Nineteen centuries of foundered orgy looked up at the hydroairplane which last week waltzed high over Lake Nemi in the Alban hills back of Rome. And Giuseppe Cultrera, Etruscan scholar in the plane,* ...

In a plot worthy of Indiana Jones (or maybe Angelina Jolie in a B-movie), Italian police have apprehended a man attempting to smuggle a suspicious sculpture out of Lake Nemi in the south of Rome. The ...

In the Alban Mountains, 300 feet beneath the placid waves of the Lago di Nemi,* there are known to rest two gorgeous pleasure barges built for the mad Emperor Caligula, loaded with many of his ...

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