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Old September 1st, 2017 #1
alex revision
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Default Italy displays marble Roman head stolen in World War II

Italy displays marble Roman head stolen in World War II

Italy is putting on display a 1st century marble head that an American museum returned after learning it was stolen during World War II from a southern Italian museum.

The Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio acquired the sculpture depicting Roman Emperor Tiberius' son Drusus in 2012.

Major Massimo Maresca of Italy's national paramilitary police art squad said Friday the original working assumption had been that the piece had been stolen by Nazi troops and taken to Germany, the fate of many artifacts and artworks from countries occupied by Nazi Germany.

But "we were looking in the wrong place," said Maresca, of the Carabinieri art squad, which has an excellent record of tracking down ancient artifacts illegally exported from Italy.

After realizing it wasn't the Nazis who had made off with the statue, the police art squad discovered that "the heads had been stolen by allied French troops, specifically by Algerian troops stationed in Italy, who, at the moment of their departure following the (Allied) liberation of Southern Italy, carted away with them the two heads" along with other artifacts, Maresca said.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/int...n_world_war_ii
 
Old September 1st, 2017 #2
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Hello Revision,
I watched a documentary recently showing how the ancient Romans used a water wheel to power the world's first wet saw. They were cutting marble veneer a half inch thick, eight at a time. Beautiful , quality work even by todays standards , but this was thousands of years ago.
No one worked marble like the Romans , before or since.

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