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Dirt After Dark: Sorry to Barge In
Bonus Episode22nd November 2020 • The Dirt Podcast • The Dirt Podcast
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Just as there have been rumors for ages that we would do this episode, so too were there rumors for ages that at the bottom of a very, very small lake in Italy there lay the remains of one or more opulent pleasure boats belonging to an infamous Roman emperor. This month, we bring you that story. From impressive feats of engineering to impressive feats of Amber

remembering things from undergrad, we look at the Nemi ships from their construction to their use to their ultimate destruction some two millennia later. Rich people, what's their deal?

Nemi Ships: How Caligula's Floating Pleasure Palaces Were Found and Lost Again (Discover)

Divers to scour lake for Emperor Caligula’s 2,000-year-old pleasure ship (Washington Post)

A missing mosaic from Caligula’s ship served as a coffee table in NYC home for 45 years (The Vintage News)

And check out Sebastiane on Wikipedia.

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