Long believed to have been lost, a bronze bust of the Roman Emperor, Caligula, has been rediscovered. The bust vanished nearly two centuries ago and concludes a decade-long quest by the curator at Strawberry Hill, Dr. Silvia Davoli. Originally gifted to the renowned writer, aesthete, and Whig politician, Horace Walpole, by the British envoy to Italy, Horace Mann, the bust was last seen by the public during the “Great Sale” of 1842. In which most of Walpole’s collection was dispersed into private hands. According to Mann, the sculpture was excavated from the ruins of Herculaneum. The Madness of Caligula: Rome’s Cruelest Emperor? The Search Is On For Caligula’s Orgy Boats Where His Twisted Fantasies May Have Been Played Out   Herculaneum was one of the two Roman towns to be buried by pumice and ash from the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD; the second being Pompeii. It is located in the modern region of Campania. Tradition states that the city was rediscovered in 1709, during the drilling of a well. Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyHistoryFamous PeopleRead Later