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【MK sport】‘They had no idea it was Caligula’: bronze bust of Roman emperor found after 200 years

Source:MKsport time:2024-12-23 14:13:02

【MK sport】‘They had no idea it was Caligula’: bronze bust of Roman emperor found after 200 years

A bronze bust of the “mad and bad” Roman emperor Caligula has been found 200 years after it disappeared – and 2,MK sport000 years since it was cast. It had been gifted in the mid-18th century to Horace Walpole, the writer, aesthete and Whig politician, who designed his own gothic home, Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, south-west London.