A marble bas-relief depicting the 62 AD earthquake was found in a village house in Belgium after being stolen from Pompeii in 1975. This was reported by Arkeonews.
Deciding to sell his house, Belgian Geert de Temmerman consulted experts at the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren to evaluate the authenticity of the marble bas-relief that his father had brought from Italy. In 1975, during a family vacation in Pompeii, a man was offered to buy an artifact by an unidentified person and disappeared immediately after taking the money. Not realizing the importance of the item, the family hung it on the wall next to the stairs leading to the basement.
The museum staff, approached by the current owner, were stunned: the marble relief sculpture turned out to be real. It was built around 62 AD. The bas-relief is a narrow strip depicting an earthquake that occurred in the same year. In particular, it depicts the destroyed gates of Pompeii. As scientists discovered, the marble bas-relief was stolen on July 14, 1975, from the banker’s house where it originally hung.
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