Village bin man helped unearth ancient bronze statues in Tuscany

SAN CASCIANO DEI BAGNI - One of Italy’s most remarkable archaeological finds in decades goes on show this month — Etruscan and Roman statues pulled from the mud in Tuscany thanks in part to the intuition of a retired garbage man.

The statues were found in 2021 and 2022 in the hilltop village of San Casciano dei Bagni, still home to popular thermal baths, where archaeologists had long suspected ancient ruins could be discovered.Digging started in 2019 on a small plot of land next to the village’s Renaissance-era public baths, but weeks of excavations revealed “only traces of some walls”, San Casciano Mayor Agnese Carletti said.

Dr Emanuele Mariotti, head of the San Casciano archaeological project, said his team was getting “quite desperate” before receiving the tip that led to the discovery of a shrine at the centre of the ancient spa complex. “When he appeared from the mud, and was therefore partially covered, it looked like the bronze of an athlete ... but once cleaned up and seen properly it was clear that it was that of a sick person,” said Ms Ada Salvi, a Culture Ministry archaeologist for the Tuscan provinces of Siena, Grosseto and Arezzo.

“It opens a window into how Romans and Etruscans experienced the nexus between health, religion and spirituality,” she said. “There’s a whole world of meaning that has to be understood and studied.”

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