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[1] Statues and tombs from ancient Rome are displayed along the cloisters of the former monastery, and a path leads from the cloisters to a "polygonal tower (late third century) with early medieval frescoes (thirteenth century) and comes out in the new museum in Via Nirone where the early medieval section is on the first floor." [2]
The museum is one of the major "on-site" museums in Italy.. [1] The different sections that compose it allow the visitor to retrace the history of the Greek, Lucanian and Roman city. The museum contains numerous finds from the sacred city, from the Heraion at Foce del Sele and from the nearby necropolis (Gaudo necropolis, Santa Venera [2 ...
An archaeological site with human presence dating from 4th century BCE, Fillipovka, South Urals, Russia.This site has been interpreted as a Sarmatian Kurgan.. An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of ...
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Italian: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, abbr. MANN) is an important Italian archaeological museum, particularly for ancient Roman remains. Its collection includes works from Greek , Roman and Renaissance times, and especially Roman artifacts from the nearby Pompeii , Stabiae and Herculaneum ...
Excavations between 1930 and 1936 brought to light some elements of the city center (a forum with a podium temple from the early years of the town, [9] a basilica and a small theater). Outside the city walls, the remains of the amphitheater and the necropolis have been identified.
The old seat of the Museum, now used as a warehouse for archaeological finds (AltinoLab) At the end of the 1950s the construction of the museum began, based on a project by the architect Ferdinando Forlati, [1] to collect the finds found at the end of the 19th century during agricultural work and during the first excavations of 1936-1937.
The building features a Baroque style.The façade is characterized by a large portal flanked by two grand Ionic columns and topped by a balcony. On each side of the portal there are three smaller balconies, supported by large corbels, each sculpted differently with the appearances of lions, children, centaurs, winged horses, chimeras, and sirens.
The site was re-discovered a little over a century ago and was first documented by the Italian historian Ettore Pais in 1910 [1] and later in greater detail by Antonio Taramelli in 1927. There was a short excavation campaign in 2000 by the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per le Provincie di Sassari e Nuoro.