Danish swords from the Bronze Age, French cave drawings from prehistoric times or Roman finds from Hungary. They belong to the almost forgotten collection of Old Europe of the National Museum of Antiquities. Curator Luc Amkreutz investigates the collecting history of this collection.
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The Venus de Milo is a marble statue from Paros which probably represents the goddess Aphrodite. A masterpiece of the Hellenistic period, it is one of the most famous Greek sculptures. After two millennia of oblivion, the broken marble was unearthed in 1820 in the ruins of ancient Milos, a Greek isl
The MAN discovers the Roman Lusitania in Madrid For the first time, the great monolithic sculpture of the Lusitanian warrior is exhibited outside Lisbon, a unique piece The exhibition exhibits more than 200 collections, including 16 National Treasures of Portugal The museum offers a pioneering vis
A typical banquet among Roman nobles:their binges have remained famous It is an image that we all have well impressed in our minds for having seen it hundreds of times in books, in frescoes and even reconstructed in successful films: the binges of the ancient Romans are the most famous in history
The skull of Pliny. The skeleton of the great Roman writer was found at the beginning of the 20th century Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), writer, naturalist and Roman admiral, was the most illustrious victim of the eruption of Vesuvius that in 79 A.D. submerged Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabia.