Viggen Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 Spanish police raided a winery in Aguilar de la Frontera near Cordoba in southern Spain on 21 March and seized over 5,000 archaeological artefacts which were on display in a clandestine museum in the cellars of the building. The hoard includes a second-century BC Roman statue of Bacchus, a Roman sarcophagus containing the skeleton of a slave with a ring around his neck, a large number of Greek, Roman and Islamic coins, Bronze Age weapons, arrow heads, swords, axes, ceramics and farming equipment, Egyptian textiles, gold laminae with Greek inscriptions and a library of rare 16th- and 17th-century books and manuscripts. full article at The Art Newspaper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlapse Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 Geez, at least he's preserving them well. I would be heartbroken if that got siezed from me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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