STATUE OF CALIGULA, BIZARRE ROMAN EMPEROR, UNVEILED IN ITALY
Italian police unveiled a colossal marble statue believed to be
a rare image of the incestuous and lunatic Roman emperor
Caligula sitting on a throne. The statue lay buried for nearly
2,000 years near Lake Nemi, south of Rome, where Rome's third
emperor Caligula, who ruled from 37 to 41 A.D., had two enormous
"love boats." The statue was recovered last January, when
finance police stopped tomb robbers trying to smuggle large,
elaborately carved, marble pieces out of the country. In order
to find the statue's missing pieces, the archaeologists
excavated the area where the tomb robbers conducted their
illegal dig. The remains of a large, semicircular nymphaeum, or
fountain court, emerged. Originally enclosed by a series of
23-foot-tall columns, the fountain court boasted a niche at its
center in which Caligula' statue once stood. Indeed, the area
contained more than one hundred fragments belonging to the
statue, including the head. Moreover, the archa