Archaeologists Unearth Headless Sphinx

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Hadrian didn’t just have a big wall in England; he had a pleasant villa in Italy too. And now archeologists are digging it up. From Archaeologists Unearth Headless Sphinx:

Archaeologists who have been digging for more than a year at the villa of Roman Emperor Hadrian in Tivoli have unearthed a monumental staircase, a statue of an athlete and what appears to be a headless sphinx.

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