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Caligula’s Gardens, Long Hidden Beneath Italian Apartment Building, to Go on View

By: Livia Gershon

y the time of his assassination in 41 A.D., the Roman emperor Caligula was infamous for his violent streak and extravagant amusements, including a huge compound featuring a bathhouse adorned with precious colored marble and space for exotic animals.

Now, reports Franz Lidz for the New York Times, the remains of this pleasure garden—known as Horti Lamiani—are set to go on public display beneath the streets of Rome.

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com

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