Written by Livia Borghese Eoin McSweeney, CNN Rome, ItalyA 2,000-year-old marble head of Augustus, Rome's first emperor , has been discovered in Isernia, an Italian town in the south central region of Molise. Giancola was following the works on behalf of the municipality of Isernia, but told CNN Thursday he didn't expect such a major find. "It was an important statue, but we do not know why it was here," she told CNN. "Isernia has a very ancient history... there are archaeological remains underneath the whole city," the town's mayor Giacomo D'Apollonio told CNN. Augustus built an empire that would eventually stretch from the UK to Egypt, and boasted on his death bed that he "found Rome built of bricks and left it marble."

Source: CNN May 06, 2021 19:18 UTC