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Ancient Roman statues emerge from British ambassador's garden in Rome

Posted by Phil Voice on December 11, 2014 at 8:02am in Landscaping

A collection of 350 ancient Roman statues and marble friezes are rediscovered after three-year restoration of overgrown garden belonging to the British ambassador's residence.

Carved reliefs of wild boar, satyrs, griffons and goddesses were discovered mouldering beneath soil and leaf litter during the laborious landscaping of the garden of Villa Wolkonsky, which was once the home of a Russian princess. As gardeners hacked through the tangled vegetation, they discovered more than 350 artefacts – far more than they had expected to find.

The marble statues and funerary reliefs, once covered in slime and moss, were cleaned by experts and went on display on Wednesday for the first time in the gardens of the villa, a historic palazzo which has been the residence of the British ambassador to Italy since the end of the Second World War.

Read full story - Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11285587/Ancient-Roman-statues-emerge-from-British-ambassadors-garden-in-Rome.html

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  • Andy Westacott December 11, 2014 at 5:49pm

    Wonder if they need a hand, what a job!

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      Phil Voice > Andy Westacott December 11, 2014 at 5:59pm

      I thought the same:)

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