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For several centuries, fishermen on Lake Nemi in Italy could see ship wreckage on to the floor of the lake, and in 1928, under the patronage of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, one of the most extraordinary archaeological restoration processes was begun to raise from the floor of Lake Nemi, a little volcanic lake in the Alban Hillsides some 30 mls south of Rome, two sunken barges that got lain 1 / 2 buried in the silt because the reign of the Roman Emperor Caligula. The recovery of these two vessels was a massive archaeological procedure, unique in scope and level, but also not atypical of the neighborhood and international prestige tasks which Mussolini used to embellish his popularity, and for which he had become known. Through executing projects of this nature, Mussolini looked for not and then highlight the splendor of Italian imperial background but also to recreate it, also to guide the Kingdom of Italy, and his own fascist dictatorship, along the road towards recapturing the glory days and nights of the fantastic Roman Empire. The restoration of the Nemi Boats was one particular enterprise. It presented Mussolini with the opportunity to reveal to the earth once more the superiority of early Roman culture and technology, while at the same time illustrating the advances in modern Italian technology that allowed for such a daring and groundbreaking salvage procedure to take place. As the waters of Lake Nemi subsided, so that as the carcasses of the first ship arrived to view, the shores of the lake were crowded with archaeologists, experts, journalists and politicians bearing witness to 1 of the greatest occasions in archaeological background.
