Caligula’s Lake Nemi Floating Palaces Emperor Caligula Ships never forgotten Shocking Discoveries Caligula was a nickname, and it means “Little The ship lay at the bottom of Lake Nemi for When they finally uncovered the ships, they Boot”. He got this nickname while working in over 2,000 years. For those entire 2,000 years made many shocking discoveries. One big the roman army as a child. It was only after he the fishermen that worked on the lake knew thing was that the ships had been completely came to power and a near death experience they were there, and this meant that the opulent and covered in marble flooring. They that he became paranoid and controlling, knowledge of them was never forgotten. The had many bronze fixtures and also many which eventually cumulated in him building 2 reason that they knew the ships were there statues. The biggest one of all was the size of pleasure ships on Lake Nemi which building because the wrecks kept entangling their the ships the largest of them with a length of large ships on was outlawed by Rome he got fishing nets. Thanks to them never being 223.097 ft. of keel, 226.378 ft. of deck, and exempt because he was the emperor. forgotten there were multiple salvage efforts to 65.6168 feet of breadth. Ships of this sizes recover them. would not be seen again until the 16th century, well over 1000 years later. Ships Recovery Destruction and rebirth Ships are lost The salvage efforts however were never Sadly, after all this in 1945 the Germans were After ruling for only 4 years Caligula was successful until Benito Mussolini came to losing the war so a group of German soldiers murdered by members of the Praetorian Guard power in Italy. He was the one who ordered in Italy burned them to the ground. In recent on January 41 CE. Soon after this a tragedy for them to be recovered, no matter what. To be years the Italian government has decided to that time occurred Caligula’s extremely able to recover them, it was decided to drain build new ones to show what the originals extravagant and massive Lake Nemi Pleasure the lake of water. To do this the Italians were like. ships were intentionally burnt and sunk. This installed several large pumps on Lake Nemi’s tragedy for then is a massive well of shore. knowledge for us. https://www.ancient.eu/Caligula/ https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet- earth/nemi-ships-how-caligulas-floating-pleasure- palaces-were-found-and-lost-again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thPLHrTiHSU https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/08/05/fo to/nemi_museo_delle_navi-172423850/1/ https://www.history.com/news/did-caligula-really- RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION DESIGN © 2019 www.PosterPresentations.com make-his-horse-a-consul.