Mystery Itinerary

The mask featured grotesque was found in the small island of Mozia before Marsala in Sicily, during excavations in a Carthaginian sanctuary of the sixth century BC . Within the sacred they were found bones of animals and children who were sacrificed to the gods, remember the horrible practices still present stems. In the context horrible event, do not leave indifferent the defined demonic mask on his scary attitude. The eyes are curved upwards and borders the mouth into a grin distorted. It was worn on the occasion of the sacrifice in the Tophet, the sanctuary where the bodies were burned as gifts to the gods Baal Hammon and Astarte. The practice mainly took the firstborn males, the most precious things you had to offer. This mask, apparently smiling, expressed happiness for the gift to the gods, but also facial contraction denoted a desperate cry for the terrible sacrifice, at the height of despair man distorts eyes and mouth in this way. This type of expression defined grot...

The Sestino National Antiquarium contains interesting Roman remains dating back to the eleventh century BC, including a Venus from Sestino, and a special circular funerary temple shrine, discovered in 1904, protoaugustea of ​​age who had to have a stairway access, disappeared. For the amount of the exhibits, the museum has been divided into three areas which are distributed vertically in three buildings to the square of the church of San Pancrazio, the main church of the city. Sestino is an Italian town of 1,385 inhabitants in the province of Arezzo in Tuscany The museum houses a rather curious object, not shown, so that the vision must ask. It is the Egg of Sestino or egg eclipse, a simple chicken egg shell which reports on a strange natural engraving showing a solar eclipse. It is good to emphasize the circular body and the rays, a regular pattern, as if he had been impressed by an intelligent hand. Instead, it was found in a chicken coop, a farmer, the next day to a solar ecli...