LOST TREASURE SHIP
» The recovery of the Imperial treasure chips lying at the bottom of the Lake of Nemi (in the Alban Mountains, near Rome), which for years has been the dream o£ Italian archaeologists, may soon be an accomplished fact. Signor Mussolini, the Premier, has given instructions to the Minister of Public Instruction, who has charge of antiquities and monuments, to take immediate steps to begin this important work (says the Rome correspondent of the "Daily Mail"). A commission charged to devise the best means to recover the ships began its sittings recently. The most favoured plan is to dig a tunnel through the side of the extinct volcano, whose crater is now occupied by the Lake of Nemi, thus emptying the lake and rendering the recovery of the ships possible. The ships lie at a great depth below the surface. Plans for t!>» recovery of these ships were made as far back as the fifteenth century. Leonardo da Vinci also worked on the problem. Sundry artistic objects, including two wolves' heads, carved in bronze, now in the Diocletian Museum, have been recovered by various means from time to time. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 55, 2 September 1926, Page 17
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191LOST TREASURE SHIP Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 55, 2 September 1926, Page 17
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